>Harumph! How dare you talk that way about CompileIt =)!
Brian,
well, I know the author, and I wrote about 100 xTernals with it. Guess I'm
entitled to make some critical comments.
>Actually, I agree that there is room for improvement in the syntax. The
>record fields are a bit of a hack IMO, and things like
>"[email protected][4]", although I became accustomed to it, aren't very
>xTalk-ish. Perhaps something like "boolean 4 of pointer myPointer" would do
>the trick?
It would be a more xTalk-like way, yes.
>As for types, I'm wishy-washy about what more could be done. I
>don't think I want a heavily typed xTalk, and CompileIt! did let you
>influence what types were used internally. But maybe it should support better
>typing when you really want, say, a "float" that works like a float.
I would never want something like:
on mouseUp
local integer myVar
put (integer) 15 into myVar
end mouseUp
But I would like if records where more like objects, e.g.
put 12 into the windowKind of myWindowPointer
(that is, for CompileIt, for OpenCard windows should be a built-in type)
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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