Re: Community Coding Standards, Naming Conventions, Best Practice in LiveCode Script for community contribution work

2017-04-28 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
These are good questions, Roland, and indeed it would ideal if such things were in hand right now. But to create a comprehensive style guide for IDE contributions we'd have another scope of work to address, in addition to other opportunities at hand. If someone wants to dive in and put

Re: Community Coding Standards, Naming Conventions, Best Practice in LiveCode Script for community contribution work

2017-04-28 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
i and j are about as far as I go with nested repeats. Although sometimes I further process the resulting tEmpList in yet another repeat loop. It helps me to follow my own code if I can produce a list with modifications, and put tEmpList (into msg) before proceeding with more processing. Personal

Community Coding Standards, Naming Conventions, Best Practice in LiveCode Script for community contribution work

2017-04-27 Thread Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode
Recently, Bernd Niggeman posted a stack that displays LiveCode Dictionary content in a different way. Could Livecode Community Developers create a "Wizard" plugin that check scripts and suggest changes according to naming conventions? Notice that already exists a plugin created by Klaus Major

Re: Community Coding Standards, Naming Conventions, Best Practice in LiveCode Script for community contribution work

2017-04-27 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The problem with ambiguous counter names is that often there are nested repeat loops and knowing which counter for which loop is crucial to understanding the code. I almost never use i, j, k, l and when I do, I usually regret the choice and remember why I don't use them. Bob S > On Apr 27,

Community Coding Standards, Naming Conventions, Best Practice in LiveCode Script for community contribution work

2017-04-27 Thread Roland Huettmann via use-livecode
I am referring to the note from Richard and to our discussion about Contribution From The Community - expanding the developer base to "hundreds and thousands of users" -- even if only 10 will remain?. Richard wrote: > At the bottom of the "Contributing" page for the LC code base there are > links