You may not realize that the Rev Script Editor uses html tags to
colorize the script lines.. but it would be an interesting a
challenge for the design team to use html tags to display html tags.
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
David Bovill wrote:
2009/12/31 Jim Ault <[email protected]>
--// html honors both quote types, ignores extra spaces
Thanks Jim !! How did I get to this age in my life without realizing
that !?
NB - I do think that RunRev should add syntax to the language to
make html
quoting very easy to use for both iRev scripts We need an elegant
solution
to quoting html - other languages are easier to use and read with
regard to
html quoting! using our own custom functions does not make read/
writeability
that much easier, and makes it harder to share scripts.
My first choice would be to allow either single or double quotes to
delimit strings - then I could put the other kind within it without
any problems (yep, idea borrowed from Python, amongst others).
So we could go one step further and also borrow from Python a neat
method of allowing multi-line strings. Instead of using *one* quote
at start+end of the string, you use *three* of them (which is
unambiguous with any existing valid code, afaict). So in revTalk
terms, I could do
put 'I said "This way!"' into tVar
put "it's mine" into tVar
put """
this is a long
multi line string.
I'd say "It's easy to embed quotes within it !!"
""" into tVar
Note the starting triple-quote has to be last item on line, and the
closing triple-quote has to be first item on its line - and the
first/last CR within the text are not part of the resulting string.
My suggestion is to extend the syntax for local variables and
constants.
Currently we have:
Hmmm :-( I'd much rather find a syntax that works equally for
local, constants and plain old expressions - see above.
-- Alex.
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