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Bob Sneidar
bobs at twft.com
Mon Jul 25 12:40:16 EDT 2011
I concur with Ken. So many environments do not allow the use of spaces. Some are case sensitive. The solution for me? Always use a-z lowercase names, never capitalize anything. Otherwise I WILL end up biting my own butt.
Bob
On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>> The tendency of programmers to use non-human-like language for object names really drives me more than nuts. LiveCode allows for spaces in object and file names. Use them!
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> Mark, although I can appreciate your feelings about this, there are legitimate reasons one might not want to use spaces in object names:
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> 1) It is more efficient as it takes less characters to type
> 2) You can quickly select the name of the object by double-clicking it
> 3) You can more easily distinguish object names from text strings when glancing through your code
> 4) Most other languages don't let you do this, so If you use multiple languages it would be better to have a consistent style across languages.
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> Just my 2 cents,
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com
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