On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote:
I have to agree with Sarah. I often want to see if a string doesn't
contain another string.
where I always feel you should be able to use something like:
if myVar does not contain "fred"
This would mean adding "does" to the Transcript dictionary. Given the
complex uses to which English puts that word (see "DO-support" in a
linguistic grammar text), I think that might be not so much a can of
worms as a whole dockful of oildrums full . . . It might be nice to
be able to write "what does myVar contain" and then look in a system
variable 'what' (like 'it', after all), but it sure would be a mess
to parse.
This discussion got me thinking about how Transcript does handle
"is", and I realized they get away with what looks deceptively like
English-style ambiguity by sneakily including (and distinguishing
carefully!) "is" and "is a" and "is in".
Charles
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