Recreating a binary stack from xml text

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Feb 20 21:38:32 EST 2012


Geoff-

Monday, February 20, 2012, 6:03:20 PM, you wrote:

> For FileMaker, it's the easy database, but equally important, it's the fact
> that all items -- scripts, layouts, columns, tables, etc. -- are abstracted
> from their names. In FileMaker, if you change the name of a table, then
> everywhere in any script that refers to that table, the script changes
> automatically to match. Change a layout name, same thing. That's something
> I wish every environment I use could have. Given that FileMaker has had
> this since at least 1994 or so, it's frustrating that no one else has
> picked it up. It's one of those things that seems obvious once you've
> experienced it </rant>

Both Visual Studio and Eclipse support that for refactoring. And yes,
I miss it here.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net





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