On 2023-07-11 13:26, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
Anyway, we'll try and figure out what has changed to cause the change
in behavior - at the very least we can go back and add a 'breaking
change' warning to the release note for the change which caused the
issue.
Okay so after a bit
On 7/11/23 07:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
On 7/11/2023 8:26 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
Cases of using 'tExt' is not uncommon - as it is really difficult to
see that it is 'text'... Another one (which bit Ali recently) is
`pLayer'. I'm sure there are a fair few
On 7/11/2023 11:20 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Or… he could just go through his code using the find utility and replace every
instance of tExt with tExtension. :-)
Yes, I plan to:
tExt = t Ext = TEXT > tFileExtension
pLayer = p Layer = PLAYER > tObjectLayer
etc.
Interesting. The reason I’ve never been bit by this I think, is that I like to
use more descriptive variables. For instance, I might have use tFileExt. I
think I got that from one of the articles (or lessons or books) from one of the
Livecode contributors, that variable names should be as
Or… he could just go through his code using the find utility and replace every
instance of tExt with tExtension. :-)
Bob S
On Jul 11, 2023, at 5:01 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
wrote:
On 2023-07-11 12:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
Does anyone, including folks at the
On 7/11/2023 8:26 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
Cases of using 'tExt' is not uncommon - as it is really difficult to
see that it is 'text'... Another one (which bit Ali recently) is
`pLayer'. I'm sure there are a fair few other examples.
Ouch! 'pLayer' is another I'd better
On 2023-07-11 13:20, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
Thank you! Bug filed:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24266
I am fine changing 'tExt'. As Martin just posted, ‘All words in the
English Dictionary should be considered reserved words.’ is not a bad
rule. Just to illustrate
On 7/11/2023 8:01 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2023-07-11 12:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
Does anyone, including folks at the mothership, have a list of new
reserved words in Livecode 10?
I have used a variable called "tExt" (t for temp, Ext for extension)
to
Hi Paul,
I remember that at a workshop or meeting, a few years PCE* it was says by
someone from LiveCode (although possibly RunRev at the time) by Mark W (I think
but I could be wrong but definitely from the mothership) that
‘All words in the English Dictionary should be considered reserved
On 2023-07-11 12:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
Does anyone, including folks at the mothership, have a list of new
reserved words in Livecode 10?
I have used a variable called "tExt" (t for temp, Ext for extension)
to pull of the file extension from file paths. i.e. if tFile
Does anyone, including folks at the mothership, have a list of new
reserved words in Livecode 10?
I have used a variable called "tExt" (t for temp, Ext for extension) to
pull of the file extension from file paths. i.e. if tFile contains
"C:/users/paul/desktop/image.png"
set itemDel to "."
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