> On 11 Aug 2017, at 10:53 am, Devin Asay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I’d like to see one like this for conditional structures: > > if <condition> then > -- do if true > else > -- do if false > end if > > I always try to use the “full” form of if-then-else. It solves lots of > confusion when you end up with nested if-thens. I teach my students to do it > this way as best practice, and I think it reinforces the idea of a completely > formed and terminated structure.
I agree Devin The script editor doesn’t do macro completion on return of `if` because we have so many possible variations of that it is near impossible to work out what the user wants however I know I always want `return & indent & cursor selection & return & end if` when I hit return and the last non comment word of the line is then. I will occasionally use the single line for things like exit repeat if I’m feeling lazy but it’s likely I only do this because there’s no macro completion here so… Anyway, as with the macro completion of `case` -> `break` adding `if` macro completion only if the last token is `then` would require some special casing in the current code which only looks at the first token of the statement and only does completion with end <first token>. Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ 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
