On 7/12/06, Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you 100% sure that it would cause problems?
Nope. I am not. But then I'm not the one making the statement to that effect either. You of course know way more than I ever want to about Director. That said, I do remember how slow Director was 'back in the day', after it retooled itself to become an object-oriented programming language. We in fact had to redo a commercial product for a customer based on our enthusiasm for object programming in Director-- solely based on unacceptably slow performance. That is unfortunately my only yardstick w/regard to Director and object-oriented Lingo/Javascript/etc.. BTW, the developer for that project was a very experienced Director developer with already shipping product And, there is a general opinion that adding more language and more parsing requirements tends to slow down an interpreter. Now, of course adding a single '=' assignment, probably wouldn't create too much a burden on the engine, or us oldtime programmers. And, like you, it would *really* save me some typing! But, I really think the core of this discussion is more towards preserving the language as is, or making significant changes (1 by 1) to make it more 'C-friendly' (or Pascal frienldy, Forth friendly, LISP friendly, etc..). I believe that is what Björnke, Rob, Dan, myself and others are reacting to. In that light, I have mentioned three specific objections: Complexity, Performance, and Readability/Maintainability. (is that 4?) It is obvious there are those for some proposed language changes, and others against. Though as Ken smartly pointed out, the subject is moot as it's probably not something which is currently on Rev's radar. All that said, RR will do what they want, and we will follow. So if they decide to add a Javascript layer, then so be it. best regards, Chipp _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
