an enhancement proposal for the language...

[Mike Bonner]

I use that in real life.

if i'm empty then

go drink beer

end if

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> I worked at Apple in England from just after HyperCard 1.0 was released,
> and for four years after that. One time when I was on vacation in California
> I dropped in on the HyperCard QA manager (David Leffler) to drop off a list
> of about 60 suggested improvements to HyperCard/HyperTalk. Bill Atkinson
> happened to be in the office that day, so David introduced me, and gave Bill
> my sheets of ideas. Bill wasn't so gracious though, and said something about
> "putting it with the other ten pages of ideas".
>
> Anyway, one of my less serious suggestions was to use "I'm", probably
> without the apostrophe. Then when checking a field you could say:
>
> if Im empty then
>
> instead of the more clumsy:
>
> if me is empty then
>
>
>
>
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