On 24 Jun 2005, at 03:55, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It's hard to get less "xTalk-like" than RegEx, but those who use it
seem to like it and those who don't aren't bothered by its
availability.
Nobody *likes* RegEx. But it is powerful, and we use it because there
is no practical alternative. I wish there were.
An assignment operator is a different kettle of fish. I'm against
adding an assignment operator whether it be "=" or ":=" because it
would add a fundamental change to the way statements are structured.
(I.e all xTalk statements begin with a command in the form of a
single word imperative.) I'm not against fundamental change if it
adds something substantially new to the language, but in this case
the purpose is just to save a bit of typing. The downside is
potential confusion among new users (and old ones for that matter).
For example, "put x into y" is used for all containers in xTalk:
variables, fields, buttons, images (and even URLs where we treat them
as containers). Would the same apply to a new assignment operator?
Consistency would say it does.
x = 4
field "myField" = "This is some text"
button "myButton" = line 1 to 4 of x
image "myImage" = url "binfile:myImage.jpg"
the selObj = somevalue
Once we start seeing statements like these we basically have two
languages being used at once when most of us have a hard time
learning one.
So my plea is "Don't mess with the language without good reason." And
I don't see one in this case.
Cheers
Dave
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