Refactoring

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Thanks Geoff, for the clarification. I agree with you. I was thinking more in general, and didn't mean to imply any criticism. As I get more familiar with livecode and it's sometimes unexpected (to me as one more used to conventional syntax) I am growing to love how quickly I can implement my ideas. I now only hope for quick resolution of some of the bugs in important features.

Best,
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Jan 30, 2015, at 1:33 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To me the three line version is far more clear than the ten line version.
> Shorter wasn't my goal, just (in this case) a really good indicator of the
> improvement in clarity.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:51 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Nice, but personally, I value clarity much more than I do brevity.
>> Re-factoring is much, much more than brevity of code. When I work, I
>> generally code, it’s spaghetti, then I re-write it. The more i re-write for
>> simple, predictable functionality for each method, the easier it is to
>> debug and change later on. Unfortunately, as the project nears completion,
>> I get less patient and the quality of the code goes down as I cut corners.
>> Oh well.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Bill
>> 
>>>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The code 10 years from now:
>>> 
>>> scanMind(currentThought, currentObject, applyNow)
>>> 
>>> All the code you will ever need.
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 09:29 , Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com<mailto:
>>> gcanyon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Small thing, but I just turned this twelve-year-old code:
>>> 
>>>    put "Double-Click:" into tProperty
>>>    if the optionKey is "down" then
>>>       if the commandKey is "down" then
>>>          put "Option-Command-Double-Click:" into tProperty
>>>       else
>>>          put "Option-Double-Click:" into tProperty
>>>       end if
>>>    else if the commandKey is "down" then
>>>       put "Command-Double-Click:" into tProperty
>>>    end if
>>> 
>>> into this:
>>> 
>>>    put "Double-Click:" into tProperty
>>>    if the commandKey is "down" then put "Command-" before tProperty
>>>    if the optionKey is "down" then put "Option-" before tProperty
>>> 
>>> I love turning ten lines of code into three lines of code. I hope twelve
>>> years from now I can look back at those three lines with the same degree
>> of
>>> horror I feel now looking at the ten-line implementation.
>>> 
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