Question about Object Names

[Bob Sneidar]

Well we can all at least be thankful that it is not how a woman would design a language either. Can you imagine having to hint at something and then the computer has to figure out what you really meant? ;-)

send "there sure are a lot of numbers around here not doing anything right now" to sum

function sum
   look around
   gather numbers whose layingaround is true
   repeat with i = 1 to the number of numbers laying around
      add number i to theSum
   end repeat

   look around some more
   if the result is true then
      send "I'm not your personal adding machine!" to sum with "Here we go again!"
   end if

   return the sum with hopes you got them all
end sum
   

Bob


On May 27, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>> My understanding is that the 2nd, "prose" or "property", form can only be used with functions that require 0 or 1 arguments. All others require the "funtion(n)" form. And the "prose" form is only allowed for native LiveCode functions, not for user-defined functions.
>> 
>> Have you seen any counter examples to this rule?
> 
> I can't think of any offhand.
> 
> But it's still not how I would design a language. ;)
> 
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