On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> Point taken. Thanks - that was me typing without being sufficiently
> caffeinated.
set the detailed caffeination of Mark to "High. VERY high."
:)
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Mark Waddingham wrote:
> In general, it is best for us to avoid introducing / making worse the
> whole function/property synergy as any function which has a property
> form reserves the name of the function - i.e. you can no longer use
> that as a property of an object (whether custom, or
On 12/11/2017 08:59 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
No - see http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3210
Awesome.
My general feeling is that the english-like syntax *should* be:
the [detailed] files of folder
i.e. 'the files' is a property of a pseudo-folder object
On 2017-12-11 17:48, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
It *is* a step away from natural-language xtalk syntax though.
I take it the syntactic sugar of offering
"the detailed files of pFolder"
would fall under the dreaded category of synonyms?
No - see
On 12/11/2017 06:47 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
I added a second optional parameter to files/folders this morning:
get files(pFolder) -- the files
get files(pFolder, "detailed") -- the detailed files
It *is* a step away from natural-language xtalk syntax though.
I take
Hi Mark,
> Am 11.12.2017 um 15:47 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
> :
> On 2017-12-10 02:33, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi Swami,
>>> Am 10.12.2017 um 02:25 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
>>>
On 2017-12-10 02:33, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Swami,
Am 10.12.2017 um 02:25 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
use-livecode :
it was a huge step to do away with the defaultfolder requirement to
get a file list
put files(somePath) is
Hi Swami,
> Am 10.12.2017 um 02:25 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
> :
>
> it was a huge step to do away with the defaultfolder requirement to get a
> file list
> put files(somePath) is wonderful
> but, "u" …we are still forced to change