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 somet

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 tha

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, 2

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