Alex,
I'm only going to address the first item; others here will have plenty to say about the remaining items.
I have learned to use quotes whenever possible in order to assist Rev to determine what I want it to do.
To use your example:
put "something" into field "field 1"
...leaves no room for doubt.
I also try to rename my objects to indicate their intended purpose. Fields might be named: "textData" or "numData" or "theFirstName". Again, note the quotes and also note the practice of using capitals in the appropriate places to assist recognition. If you also use "smart names" for your variables you'll end up with transcript statements like this:
put userEnteredName into field "theUserName"
which tells you where you've been and where you're going, so to speak.
I wrote my first programs in Business Basic and Commodore Basic. I moved to HyperCard and learned enough in two weeks to become productive. I'm not that smart; HyperTalk and Transcript share, among other things, three traits that I treasure: An extremely high level syntax about as close to plain English as you could wish, the availability of long object names, and the ability to deal with synonyms. This latter trait drives "traditional" programmers nuts. *grin*
Regards, Barry
On Jun 9, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Alex wrote:
From: Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Transcript language design. To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
One of the things that is a bit of a hurdle for a "traditional language
programmer" (like me) to overcome is the unusual syntax and verbosity of
Transcript. I'm trying to convince myself that this will feel more natural
if I just keep trying :-)
Are there any "style" hints or suggestions to help with this ?
I've spent today making "simple" changes to the tutorial scripts; the three
issues that have occupied an embarrassingly large number of hours today
have been
1. Simple script. put "something" into field1 Of course, what I meant was put "something" into field field1 so it was disappearing into an unintended local variable.
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