Verbosity and Lines of code

[Bob Sneidar]

What WILL save time (and I think it's on the list of future V9 features) is script editor "clairvoyance" or AutoFill as it's called. Imagine all your text variables starting with vtx (autofill usually requires a minimum of characters typed) and now you get a list of all your text variables, or array variables, or whatever variables. Suddenly you realize there is a mistyped entry. BUG FOUND! Imagine an editable list you can add to for things like 3rd party commands and functions. Typing dbquery_createObject() every time I want to use an sqlYoga query, THAT is too much typing! 

Bob S


> On Jun 30, 2017, at 03:05 , Lagi Pittas via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I Can't understand this fixation with how many characters typed.
> 
> I now quite like the verbose "dot notation" of Livecode - it's now second
> nature and it's the last thing I would even bother asking to augment with
> "real" dot notation.
> 
> the put <expression> into variable adds very little time to typing and is
> so much easier to explain to someone who hasn't been tainted with decades
> of the "right way" which was needed when teletypes printed at 10 characters
> a second and they had time share systems which were charged on CPU time
> used - more data/programs to parse more CPU usage.