control scructure repeat and next line

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Tue Feb 17 14:41:29 EST 2004


Hi Dar,

> On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 12:32 PM, hershrev wrote:
>
>>> The Revolution style is to put item and line delimiters between 
>>> datums,
>>> but it will also accommodate putting them after datums.  This is 
>>> important
>>> in representing empty datums.  If datums are never empty, then 
>>> putting
>>> delimiters between is fine.  I mention this, in case you are 
>>> surprised about
>>> how many lines are processed in such a loop.
>> Sorry to say , but I don't know what datums are.
>
> Sorry.
>
> I mean pieces of information.  I tried to use this for a more general 
> term for
> lines and items.  Lines use a "line end" or "new line" character as a 
> delimiter
> (often called 'return' in Revolution).  Item typically use a comma as 
> a delimiter.
>
> Since you are working with lines, I should have stuck with "lines".  
> There is no
> Revolution jargon called datum, as far as I know; this is all my fault.

I was also a bit puzzled, since "datum" is the german word for "date" 
:-)

> Dar Scott

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de



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