On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 07:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank,
If you want dot notation and equals signs, why wouldn't you just use C, or
VB or Java or any ohter authoring language which has those? That's what
*they do*. At some point, adding same syntax ends up creating same
functionality.
The fact is that the X-talks *are not like those other languages*. That's
what many of us actually like about Transcript.
Hi Chipp,
I think you're confusing the language (xTalk), with the development and runtime environment (call it HyperCard++ for the moment). HyperCard++ is a Rapid Application Development environment that uses the concepts of stacks, cards and controls to make it relatively easy to build complex multi-window applications. xTalk, the language that is used to control this RAD, is a HyperTalk clone, but could (theoretically) be replaced with any number of other languages, e.g. C, JavaScript, VB, PHP, etc.
I like the RAD, and I don't want to replace xTalk -- my original comment, that it would be nice if I could write "x = y + z" would mean adding a very small amount of "syntactic sugar" to xTalk, and would go a long way towards making xTalk look more a "real" language.
RR has limited resources for modifying all of the many compiles of engines
it supports. My vote is they concentrate on adding features and fixing bugs,
rather than supporting multiple syntaxes.
I agree about wasting precious resources. But I'd be willing to bet that "x = 1 + 2" is already supported in the parser, and is commented out for historical reasons. It would be interesting if a RunRev person could confirm or deny this :-)
Best, -- Frank
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