On 2015-10-05 09:58, jameshale wrote:
Except the alternate syntax can no longer be handled.
The alternate syntaxes in many cases don't necessarily do what you
think.
In your case:
repeat with x = 1 to 5
repeat for x = 1 to 5
Is certainly quit clear - one can immediately see what they should do
quite unambiguously.
My personal feeling (having observed people's interaction with the
language for a long time) is that variant forms of syntax which do the
same thing actually make things harder to learn and understand - it
makes the dictionary larger and increases the vocabulary for no real
benefit.
Other forms which are no longer allowed are things like:
repeat with x = 1 to 5 with messages
This has no function at all - the 'with messages' is ignored - indeed I
think a couple of people have found bugs in their scripts as a result.
Whilst strictness might reduce 'personal expression' to some extent, I
do think it helps the learning and remembering process. It means
everyone uses the same forms to do the same things - making reading each
others code, and helping each other out easier.
Whatever side of the fence one eventually chooses the docs need to
match,
and if this stricter mode is kept some flag about it in both the docs
and
the release notes is warranted.
I will happily hold my hands up and say that this was an element of
social engineering on my part.
For a long time I've stopped any changes which make syntax stricter from
being attended to - precisely because of the concern of breaking
scripts. However, this position has always been based on abstract
argument rather than direct data thus this time round I decided to let
this change go through, without any sort of fanfare - just to see if it
truly was a problem.
If the change is kept then we will make sure it is noted much more
clearly in a future build.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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