Right on time! (or the abbreviated form: "Right on!")
Best,
Jerry Daniels
Makers of Galaxy 1.5
http://www.daniels-mara.com
On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 10/15/06 4:18 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, my question to all, since it seems to be OK and even "in" to use
abbreviations, how about for examples on this list where newbies read
scripts? Should those be spelled out or should newbies learn to read
abbrev early? (The word "should" should be read in the most generous
sense in all places.)
Personally, I think that newbies should be exposed to all forms of
Revolution programming so that they can make their own decisions on
how they
want to code.
Slightly related: I sometimes use f(x) instead of 'the f of x' where
I think it is more readable, especially within a more math-like
expression.
It's funny you mention it, I was looking at someone else's code
today, and
noticed they were getting the path to the Temporary folder in this
way:
put the specialFolderPath of "Temporary" into TempFolder
This seemed quite odd to me because I've always used the
specialFolderPath
function with parentheses... and it also seemed odd to me because
it didn't
follow what I felt was "English" convention - it should have been
something
like:
put the specialFolderPath of the folder "Temporary" into TempFolder
So sometimes it "makes sense" to use "the f of x" format, and
sometimes it
makes sense to use the "f(x)" format. It all depends on what "makes
sense"
to whom...
Oh, and here is one Andre might understand, "cd" looks like "cdr" to
me, an "abbreviation" for "first".
Pardon me, but how does "cdr" act as an abbreviation for "first"?
(Sorry, I
don't "get it"). :-)
To me, I automatically replace the abbreviations with the
appropriate noun
while I'm reading it... so I don't read this:
put the text of fld 1 of bg "Test" into tTemp
as
"put the text of fuld one of bee-gee Text into tee-Temp"
but as:
"put the text of field one of background Text into tee-Temp"
To each their own, I say... whatever is most comfortable and
efficient...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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