> Alain: This new OpenTalk syntax was inspired from
> AppleScript's favorites feature, but my spin has
> nothing to do with MacOS favorites or with Web
> bookmarks.
Anthony: The problem is that your syntax will only
allow paths ...
Alain: What makes you say this ??
Anthony : ... whereas having the home stack handle it
(and, btw, your syntax would be part of this) allows
searching in any method the user can conceive.
Alain: Scripting the search-strategies is indeed a
valuable feature, but I am also wondering to what
extent the search-mechanism should be externalized and
put into the hands of the user, and how much should
reside inside the application itself.
Alain: How much limited script space (chars) are going
to be occupied by this search-feature? How likely is
it that users will toy around with such a complex
feature? How reliable will their changes be? What if
users inadvertently changes (a search and replace all,
for example) or deletes these critical handlers? It
happened to me when I was a HyperCard newbie, and I
wondered for years why this path-feature never seem to
work for me as was suggested it would in the many
HC-related books that I read.
Alain: Could we objectivize handlers? In other words,
treat individual handlers inside a script as an
instance of the handler-class. Each handler could thus
have properties: like dontSearch, dontChange,
dontRemove ... for examples.
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