Musings on Architect, MVC, Nested Behaviors

[Quentin Long]

> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>
>> On December 27, 2018 2:36:16 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sounds like one more reason to allow stack properties as YAML
>>> frontmatter in the file. Ever since I suggested that a couple
>>> years back, the range of valuable use-cases keeps growing.
>>
>> I wouldn't mind if you poked them again about it.
>
> At your prompting I started to open an enhancement request for this, but
> not long into it I hit on why they probably haven't done this yet:
>
> By what means would be indicate which properties we want saved there and
> which ones we don't care about?

To a first approximation, I'd say that any property which has been changed from the engine's built-in default value should be saved. One would expect that the engine's defaults can be easily accessed for such a purpose?


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