General approach question

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/21/05 6:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Cards may seem more "natural" to someone coming from HyperCard because 
> with HC you had no choice:  it had neither arrays nor custom properties 
> to store them in, and the built-in sort command only worked on cards; 
> you had to use an external for anything else.

Aw, it isn't *that* bad. You can sort containers in HC; as a matter of 
fact, Rev's "sort" command is taken verbatim from HyperCard. "Sort lines 
of..." "sort words of..." etc. Compatibility and all.

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