I've come across it, but to be honest, I really like the verbose real-language nature of Livecode. I am a touch typist, so for me it really is a question of programming as talking to myself.
One of the main things I wish LC had was named parameters, like in Python, where one can call a function with something like this: sum(value1=3, value2=5) I like how clear it makes things when one sees a function being called, especially when a function has many parameters. Also, one can have default values specified in the declaration of a function in Python. That's also handy. Bernard On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:26 PM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/23/11 9:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> Is this well known? >> >> >> >> on mouseUp >> put "ABCDE" into foo >> answer char 2 foo >> end mouseUp >> >> >> >> This works for all chunk types. But where is the keyword "of" (or >> "in") at line 3? It seems to be optional. Has this always been so? >> Are there other keywords that do not matter? > > > There are others but I can't remember which they are. I think it's probably > a case of the engine being so forgiving, and the behavior depends on where > in the structure the omission occurs. The same is true for some unquoted > literals which can work at the ends of lines but not in the middle. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
