Hi all,
I followed this thread and I would like to share additional (off
topic) conventions I use since years that help me a lot when reading
(above all reading again some months later) my code:
At the end of any line where I call another handler or function
(custom or system), I am used
Thank you all for your replies on your various style and naming
conventions. I have studied them all and have come up with a style I
think will work for me.
I have started writing my personal style guide which I have appended
below. I have not included many of the good style suggestions
Dennis Brown wrote:
I would appreciate anyone taking a look at what I am planning and
comment if you see something else that I might want to take into
consideration before I code it into stone ;-)
There's a huge body of xTalk code published over the years by authors
who use most of what's
Thank you Richard,
Yes, I studied your well written guide before I decided what I wanted
to do. The Hungarian and I could just not see eye-to-eye, and I was
never that good with foreign languages --just a little Latin and
Spanish;-) I read my code out loud in my head, and I could not get
On 7/2/05 4:59 PM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you all for your replies on your various style and naming
conventions. I have studied them all and have come up with a style I
think will work for me.
I have started writing my personal style guide which I have appended
below.
on 22/6/05 8:42 pm, Ken Ray wrote :
Were you thinking of some formal [ANN]? I have no problem doing that; just
wanted to know what you were thinking...
**
Why not? It sounds like a potentially big issue that every scripter needs to
know about, so [ANN] is appropriate.
--
One is immediately struck by the larger implications of this
microcosm of non-conflicting Rev tools and therefore the greater
significance of establishing these conventions.
blue sky dream
A single, universal player ala Acrobat Reader, suddenly goes big
time in terms of popularity The
Thanks for the many replies about naming conventions. So to summarize:
1. The cryptic names are not really being pushed to make things
unreadable, but as protection from the deficiencies of Rev.
2. The lack of a naming scope somewhere between local and global
(such as namespace or the
On 6/22/05 1:50 AM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I understand the ECMI convention proposal correctly I should start
using a double prefix as in:
Company=HAP Himalayan Academy Publications
# where do I go to register this officially with ECMI?
e.g. 1 Main Stack Name=
Aloha, Ken:
Yes HAP = Himalayan Academy Publications
Always has... always will, carved in stone.
So, thanks you.. enter it on the new registry.
Thanks!
Sivakatirswami
On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 6/22/05 1:50 AM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I
Dennis-
Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:40:09 AM, you wrote:
DB aWell bThis cIs dVery eInterresting. fPerhaps gWe hCan iPropose
DB jSomething kThat lMakes mA nBit oMore pSense qBy rAddressing sThe
DB tReal uIssues vBetween wWhat xUsers yNeed zTo aDo, bAnd cWhat
DB dTranscript eNeeds fTo gDo.
Ken-
Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:51:53 AM, you wrote:
KR In fact, you should go over there and download the latest (Draft 004)
KR specification so you can see how the globals/etc. are used. You'll see the
It would be nice if the group weren't quite so private. Is there some
reason why the
on 22/6/05 5:51 pm, Ken Ray wrote :
Both you and Paul Looney have suggested that a registry start being kept...
so if you want to email me with your company prefix (unless you're going to
use HAP), I'll start setting up a document and posting it at the Rev Interop
group
On 6/22/05 12:04 PM, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aloha, Ken:
Yes HAP = Himalayan Academy Publications
Always has... always will, carved in stone.
So, thanks you.. enter it on the new registry.
You got it!
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site:
On 6/22/05 12:26 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ken-
Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:51:53 AM, you wrote:
KR In fact, you should go over there and download the latest (Draft 004)
KR specification so you can see how the globals/etc. are used. You'll see the
It would be nice if the
On 6/22/05 2:33 PM, John Ridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for posting this, Ken - I was beginning, thanks to Katir amongst
others, to see that there is a real problem here even for garage scripters
(sorry, Dan - Inventive Users :-)), and wondered if this particular penny
had dropped at
On 6/22/05 11:40 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the many replies about naming conventions. So to summarize:
1. The cryptic names are not really being pushed to make things
unreadable, but as protection from the deficiencies of Rev.
(etc.)
I guess you could say
Ken Ray wrote:
On 6/22/05 11:40 AM, Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the many replies about naming conventions. So to summarize:
1. The cryptic names are not really being pushed to make things
unreadable, but as protection from the deficiencies of Rev.
(etc.)
I guess you
Mark Wieder wrote:
Ken-
Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 9:51:53 AM, you wrote:
KR In fact, you should go over there and download the latest (Draft 004)
KR specification so you can see how the globals/etc. are used. You'll see the
It would be nice if the group weren't quite so private. Is there some
--- Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Erik Hansen wrote:
--- Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just wish some of it had been tossed my
way.
i just wish you had had a second roving
camera.
next time ask me!
Sounds like a
That's 'cause you weren't in the direct flight path!
(not that I'm unsympathetic to anti_Hungarian-Lite).
Judy
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Talluto wrote:
I just wish some of it had been tossed my way. :)
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Dennis Brown wrote:
Dar,
Thank you for standing up for the rights (in a good natured way) of
those who think it's overkill to have all these structured names in a
conversational language with handlers that are usually only a few lines
long. Why mar the elegance of a understandable name
On 20 Jun 2005, at 21:06, Dennis Brown wrote:
Dar,
Thank you for standing up for the rights (in a good natured way) of
those who think it's overkill to have all these structured names in
a conversational language with handlers that are usually only a few
lines long. Why mar the
Richard Gaskin wrote:
At present there are more dozens of prolific tool authors for the Rev
community, and the number grows every month. There are a handful of
issues with the development and deployment of tools that are common to
all, and by choosing to adopt a few fully-optional rules
--- Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just wish some of it had been tossed my way.
i just wish you had had a second roving camera.
next time ask me!
Erik Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org
__
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of
On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Erik Hansen wrote:
--- Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just wish some of it had been tossed my way.
i just wish you had had a second roving camera.
next time ask me!
Sounds like a great idea Erik.
Mark Talluto
--
CANELA Software
On Jun 19, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Erik Hansen wrote:
the heated emotions over scripting conventions,
literally involving a food fight,
Yes, for the record let it be known that none other than the
otherwise-mild-mannered Dar Scott threw food at Ken and I during our
wheel, if some else has already done the spoked
bicycle wheel.
Dennis
On Jun 20, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Jun 19, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Erik Hansen wrote:
the heated emotions over scripting conventions,
literally involving a food fight,
Yes, for the record
On 6/20/05 1:39 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
I had to applaud and I almost regretted buying all that throwable
food at the corner market. Almost.
For myself, the food fight was a highlight of the conference. Enlisting
Andre's throwing arm was a good move, and my only regret was that the
speakers
Hi Dennis,
Dennis Brown wrote:
Dar,
Thank you for standing up for the rights (in a good natured way) of
those who think it's overkill to have all these structured names in a
conversational language with handlers that are usually only a few lines
long. Why mar the elegance of a
--- Dennis Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dar,
Thank you for standing up for the rights (in a
good natured way) of
those who think it's overkill to have all these
structured names in a
conversational language with handlers that are
usually only a few
lines long. Why mar the elegance
Erik Hansen wrote:
OK, how about a cryptic unpronounceable suffix?
i started putting CB after all check box
buttons and RB after all radio buttons.
this helps when doing a Find on all open
stacks.
I always give things names like CloseButton or ModeRG (radio group) or
B9600RB (9600 baud
On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I had to applaud and I almost regretted buying all that throwable
food at the corner market. Almost.
For myself, the food fight was a highlight of the conference.
Enlisting Andre's throwing arm was a good move, and my only regret
On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
See that we. You might suspect there was a conspiracy. You
might even wonder who actually threw food. The dynamics of these
underground organizations can get quite complicated.
I just wish some of it had been tossed my way. :)
Mark
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