I agree, it does seem fairly inconsistent.
Cheers,
Luis.
On 24 Oct 2007, at 21:36, François Chaplais wrote:
revolution's documentation is bad mainly because the syntax of
Transcript has departed from the natural english approach of Bill
Atkinson to more a conventional one like function(arg1,arg2) etc...
Frankly, I appreciate to be able to "lock objects" instead of "set
the lockWhetever to true".
I recently had a look at the video library, and I find it awfully
complicated to remember all of these RevBit1Bit2 keywords: in some
commands, "Video" comes just after "Rev", in others "Video" comes
in third or fourth position: this smells ill assimilated externals.
The rev team should start thinking about updating the language and
the parser. For instance revVideoGrabDialog could be synomym with
"get Video Dialog" or "answer Video" like "answer file" etc...
Revolution advertises its language as being "natural english"; they
should be careful it remains true. This means more reserved words,
but not many. On the other hand, if one consider that "grab" for
instance, should be a keyword, it should be usable with as many
kinds of objects as possible. This is how the language can be
merciful (and hence "natural"): by allowing several formulations
for the same meaning.
Francois Chaplais
http://cas.ensmp.fr/~chaplais/
http://cas.ensmp.fr/~chaplais/index-e.html
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