Dan Friedman wrote: > Here’s my silly contribution. How many times do we write something > like this: > > put “Are you sure you want to delete the image” && quote & myImageName > & quote && “?” into tPrompt > > I have a simple q() function in all my projects: > > function q inData > return (quote & inData & quote) > end q > > Now, I can simply do this: > > put “Are you sure you want to delete the image” && q(myImageName) & > “?” into tPrompt > > Tiny, but mighty. :)
The q function is handy, but handier still would be to have JavaScript's support for interchangeable single- and double-quotes to allow nesting, e.g.:
put 'Hello there, Teddy "Roughrider" Roosevelt!' -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
