OT: general name for...

wayne durden wdurden at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 13:01:39 EDT 2010


I don't think you would call a function in javascript a handler.  My feeling
is that there isn't a universally accepted term that would apply across all
the language types.  Code chunk or snippet is as generic as you would get
without getting strange looks.

Handler to me has connotations out of the xTalk languages because at the
time of Hypercard they didn't want to scare off potentially non programming
hypercarders.  At that time we were making the transition to event based
programming where events were trapped and "handled".

Wayne

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, David Bovill <david at vaudevillecourt.tv>wrote:

> Sounds good - then a function in Javascript would be a type of "handler"?
>
> On 22 September 2010 17:31, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>
> > I tend to call everything handler... functions and commands I call
> handler
> > even if in LiveCode jargon a handler is not a function but just a
> > command...
> > They are not methods or procedures...
> >
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