> On 11 Feb 2020, at 6:10 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can the merge function be extended to support scripts interleaved between > blocks of non-code? > > e.g. this works in Server, and not in Merge: > > <?lc if there is a file "something" then ?> > This is some non-code > <?lc else ?> > Some other non-code > <?lc end if ?>
I suspect it could but might require merge to do two parses to execute server style then execute merge style so in the end it might be better to have a separate function. A way to just parse once and execute multiple times like a regular script would be useful. Perhaps the engine could maintain a stack of compiled server style scripts like it does for regex. I’m not overly sure it adds a great deal to the platform though. Probably use cases for this are better served my multi-line string literals. Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
