At 7:41 PM -0400 on 6/23/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Perhaps NULL-terminated, if that is to be
>the native string type anyway?
Akk... grrr... NO!!!! We have enough problems with that. I prefer length longs.
>Or else a p-string with two length bytes?
Four bytes.
>I
>really can't imagine anyone wanting object names longer than 65536 characters
>=P...
Well, no reason to not allow it. We'd have to add code everywhere to make
sure the length is not exceeded. And trust me, it's a pain in the a**.
>BTW, while we are on the 32k note, are we planning to build this on top of
>WASTE instead of TextEdit? Does WASTE have a Windoze port (lest we have to
>use two engines to be cross-platform)?
We're going to have to do our own text engine.
>I'll be looking forward to the next snapshot- I'll have to break out my
>Hypercard Script Language Guide and find some commands to crank out (and
>crank up hopefully).
It'll be soon :) I think I've got parameter counting right <g>.
