RE: Style question: returning error values from functions

2003-07-13 Thread Monte Goulding
Yes, I was just about to suggest it to Richard. I think this is an under used language feature. Unfortunalty Scott designed the engine throws to require considerable parsing of the error variable to determine the problem so you need to handle the possibility of an engine throw. One

Re: Style question: returning error values from functions

2003-07-13 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 12:13 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: Is it possible to throw from an external? I haven't done any external development yet although as soon as I see some decent docs I'll probably jump in as I know some C. I'd be inclined to include a glue stack library with an external.

RE: Style question: returning error values from functions

2003-07-13 Thread Monte Goulding
Is it possible to throw from an external? I haven't done any external development yet although as soon as I see some decent docs I'll probably jump in as I know some C. I'd be inclined to include a glue stack library with an external. It would handle the sugar coating for problems

Spam filtering for metacard.com domain

2003-07-13 Thread Scott Raney
Due to the volume of spam being sent to the metacard.com domain and our recent transfer of responsibility for the MetaCard engine technology to Runtime Revolution, we will be taking increasingly more aggressive approaches to spam filtering over the next couple of weeks. For starters, we'll be

Fwd: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Simon lord
Wow. See what happens when you only go through your lists once a week... My feelings on this are mixed, on the one hand I'm hoping Scott got a sweet deal and can retire/relax after years of hard work. I haven't read through all the RE:'s on this thread but if it hasn't been said yet then

Fwd: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Simon lord
The first order of business will be to set up a mailing list so that we can start discussions of how that group should be organized and later, what changes to the UI everyone wants (and are willing to contribute to!). That should help keep this list focused on *using* the UI, with some

Re: METACARD ACQUIRED BY RUN REV!!!

2003-07-13 Thread Simon lord
As Scott said the MC IDE is now open source so you can continue to maintain an engine license and use the MC IDE instead of Rev. It's up to you if you want to switch or not but it seems that all development will go into the engine and the Rev IDE. As long as the new features are documented then