On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Kevin Miller wrote:
> On 15/6/99 1:05 pm keith martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Using 'by' and 'delimiter' still only makes true 'linguistical' sense for
> >me when written: 'item 2 [of container 1] delimited by myDel'. Saying 'by
> >delimiter myDel' isn't *too* bad, but... <sigh>
> >
> >Let me start again... What would a complete line of script look like? Which
> >is better? How do they abbreviate?
> >
> > put item 2 by delimiter "/" of field 1
> > put item 1 by del "/" of fld 1
> > put item 1 del "/" of fld 1
> >or
> > put item 2 of field 1 delimited by "/"
> > put item 2 of fld 1 by del "/"
> > put item 2 of fld 1 del "/"
> >or even
> > put item 2 of field 1 using delimiter "/"
> > put item 2 of fld 1 using del "/"
> > put item 2 of fld 1 del "/"
> >
> >Oh, I don't know. This is all getting a little cloudy and 'woods for trees'.
>
> I don't really think there is a lot between them. The third example
> reads a little better. I don't know if there is any difference between
> how hard it is to implement any of them. Any vendor care to speak? (Or
> should that be "the usual vendor" ;-)
None of them would be much different from any of the others. Using
"by" vs. "using" or alternate spellings are no problem. The only
concern I'd have is that by putting the "del" clause at the end of the
chunk there is a conceptual break which could lead to confusion. For
example, try:
put item 2 of line 3 of field 1 of card 2 of stack "x" using delimiter "/"
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> PS. The problem with this list is that we can never seem to agree on
> something and go "right, thats it - its been decided"...
Usually enough of a concensus appears for our development purposes,
but I agree that it's far from adequate as a cohesive force in keeping
the various xTalk dialects tracking together. Somebody would need to
set up a voting system and we'd all have to use it if that is a goal
we want to achieve. This was actually what the list was set up for,
but it's not a huge priority around here anymore for obvious reasons.
And I'd hate to see the lack of a voting system bring progress on any
issue to a halt, which is unfortunately what seems to have happened
on a key issue over on the opencard list...
Regards,
Scott
> >k
>
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