OT: general name for...
What is the the general name for handler for scripting languages - not that anything is going to be perfect, but apparently handler refers to Handler, an asynchronous callbackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_%28computer_science%29subroutine in computing, so what term could be used to refer to functions, command, methods, and handlers across scripting languages - code chunks? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: general name for...
I tend to call everything handler... functions and commands I call handler even if in LiveCode jargon a handler is not a function but just a command... They are not methods or procedures... On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:27 PM, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tvwrote: What is the the general name for handler for scripting languages - not that anything is going to be perfect, but apparently handler refers to Handler, an asynchronous callbackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_%28computer_science%29 subroutine in computing, so what term could be used to refer to functions, command, methods, and handlers across scripting languages - code chunks? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: general name for...
Sounds good - then a function in Javascript would be a type of handler? On 22 September 2010 17:31, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: I tend to call everything handler... functions and commands I call handler even if in LiveCode jargon a handler is not a function but just a command... They are not methods or procedures... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: general name for...
I don't think you would call a function in javascript a handler. My feeling is that there isn't a universally accepted term that would apply across all the language types. Code chunk or snippet is as generic as you would get without getting strange looks. Handler to me has connotations out of the xTalk languages because at the time of Hypercard they didn't want to scare off potentially non programming hypercarders. At that time we were making the transition to event based programming where events were trapped and handled. Wayne On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tvwrote: Sounds good - then a function in Javascript would be a type of handler? On 22 September 2010 17:31, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: I tend to call everything handler... functions and commands I call handler even if in LiveCode jargon a handler is not a function but just a command... They are not methods or procedures... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: general name for...
On 22 September 2010 18:01, wayne durden wdur...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you would call a function in javascript a handler. My feeling is that there isn't a universally accepted term that would apply across all the language types. Code chunk or snippet is as generic as you would get without getting strange looks. I think I'll go with handler as I want it to refer to something that is given a name in the language by the programmer, not an arbitrary text file worth of code - that's a different level of chunking. Anyway I'm only naming the database fields for now :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: general name for...
Hi David, AFAIK in procedural languages this would be a subroutine, in OOP languages a method Now, in which category does liveCode fit? g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_%28computer_science%29 Cheers, Malte___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: general name for...
LiveCode does not fit OOP paradigm, it is almost procedural and imperative but it is not due to the message path. I think we should call our subroutines: definitions, it is a generic enough term and it has good semantics, it means something we applied a name for. So a handler, a function and a commmand are just that definitions. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill revolut...@derbrill.dewrote: Hi David, AFAIK in procedural languages this would be a subroutine, in OOP languages a method Now, in which category does liveCode fit? g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_%28computer_science%29 Cheers, Malte___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
