[OT] Why would it be a pain?

[J. Landman Gay]

Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, HyperChris at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> get "stuff"
>> put it
>>
>> ... you get 'stuff' in HC but in Rev you get 'it'
>>
>>
>> my point is not to match HC but rather to be able to type things into the
>> message box, like answer folder, and be able to get at the contents of it
>> without 
>> having to try and remember to type global it before i make the answer call.
> 
> If I understand your comment, you don't have to remember anything.
> Use a semi-colon:
> 
>  get stuff;put it
>  answer folder "Locate:";put it

Right, which is why I was wondering what the fuss was about. And in Rev, 
you can also use the multi-line message box to do it in two lines:

   get "stuff"
   put it

So it works either way. HyperCard did a special-case thing with the "it" 
variable in the message box, because there were zero options for typing 
in multi-line scripts (though you could paste one in, but that was never 
documented.) But Rev offers two ways to do multi-line scripts, which 
means that "it" isn't an issue any more.

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