Your original is the same as: put field «test» into tParam answer testFunction(tParam)
So yes, whatever is placed as a parameter to a function is not expanded. Think about doing the same thing with an arbitrary block of text in the field and what would be the expected result. Brian Milby br...@milby7.com > On Nov 29, 2022, at 6:26 AM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > >> 29. nov. 2022 kl. 12:08 skrev Alex Tweedly via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> Yes, your description is correct (except for saying the behavior is >> "puzzling" :-) >> >> The first case you are passing a single parameter (which happens to have >> commas in its current content). You could have said " .... paramcount() >> returns 1 as expected". >> >> The second case you pass 5 values. >> >> And the third case, as you say, expands the value first, so it becomes a >> call with 5 parameters. >> >> Alex. > > What is «puzzling» to me, among a whole lot of other things I fail to grasp, > is why in the first example, the value in field «test» is treated as a single > parameter, but in the last example it is treated as five parameters, since > nothing has changed with the values in the field itself. I do however accept > the reality of it, but I wanted to understand why this is the way it is. My > original thinking was that by referencing the field as parameter, the values > of the field would then become de facto parameters passed on to the function. > I guess it is just another item in the long list of things I do not fully > understand. :-) > > Best regards > Tore > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
