Hi Peter,
This was reported for the first time over a decade ago:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241
You can do this:
constant k= "1+1"
on foo
put value(k)
end foo
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On 7/13/2014 02:43, Peter W A Wood wrote:
I wanted to set a constant that included a specific Unicode code point, in this
case a combining umlaüt. I didn't want to enter ë from the keyboard as that
could result in a combined character rather than the grapheme cluster that I
wanted.
I am requesting that LiveCode supports simple evaluation when setting
constants, such as:
constant noël = "noe" & numToCodepoint(0x0308) & "l"
Another sample simple evaluation is:
constant approxPi = 22 / 7
It would of course be fantastic to be able to evaluate prior defines constants,
variables and handler arguments. Then constants would effectively become
immutable variables which will be almost essential when you add multiprocessing
support to LiveCode. (You can already buy phones with 8-core processors).
I have submitted this as enhancement request 12802.
Regards
Peter
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