Why him does not use a natural language for programming?

[Bob Sneidar]

Point taken, but I think you are mistaken on one point. You cannot put anything into a property, you can only set a property. "put the foreColor of me into the FgColor" will cause the compiler to come to a screeching halt, as will set the foreColor to the fgColor, because I haven't supplied the object argument to the fgColor. But you are right in saying that it is easy to slip up and insert that space. I have trained my monkey brain to avoid that for the most part. 

Bob


On Feb 24, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Bob-
> 
> Friday, February 24, 2012, 8:23:47 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> I even put it before most variables because "into theFgColor" is
>> more readable to me.
> 
> I was with you up to that point. I find that using the "the" prefix is
> more error-prone that the shorthand form of "t" even though it's less
> immediately recognizable as readable language. With your example there
> probably wouldn't be a problem, but if you had said "theForeColor" you
> would run the risk of slipping up and typing "the ForeColor" somewhere
> in the script. There wouldn't be any compiler error, but your script
> wouldn't do what you expect and you'd have a merry time figuring out
> what was going on there.
> 
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
> 
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