Handling of final delimter (was Re: "this me"?)

[Mike Kerner]

Monte, Mark,
Yes, I think I like a stack/script property better, too.  Great idea.

Jacque and Richard...
So you're basically thinking we should change words, not the behavior?  Why
not just change the documentation, then?  In the meantime, if the behavior
is to be left alone, there are a variety of functions (especially the
database functions) that have to be fixed to make them work this way.

Also remember that text editors don't behave this way, either.  Empty
<CR>'s at the end of a line still trigger a page break.  That seems far
more correct than having to figure out of a delimiter/terminator should be
significant or not.


Adding a list datatype (and true pointers) would both be great, but one of
the things that has always made xTalk so awesome and amazing is way that
datatypes are generally context-sensitive and implicit nearly everywhere.
It's much less of a world where I have to tell the interpreter/compiler
what I mean, or put .toString() everywhere, and more of it having to do
just that little bit of work for me - in other words, it has to be just a
bit smarter than the table I'm typing at right now.  If, by creating more
defined/restrictive datatypes I'm going more the direction of a traditional
language, then LC loses something that, I believe, makes it extra special
when deciding between it and something like Xojo.



On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:31 PM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 8/11/13 8:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>  One simple solution would be to add "lineTerminator" and
>> "itemTerminator" as synonyms for "lineDelimiter" and "itemDelimiter"
>> respectively, and then the conceptual model fits what the engine does.
>> We leave the "*delimter" tokens in place for us ol' timers, but
>> emphasize "*terminator" for newcomers.
>>
>
> Wow, telepathy. That's *exactly* what I was thinking this afternoon. Add a
> synonym that calls it what it is, and let the older syntax deprecate.
>
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