Something that's always puzzled me about xTalk development is the lack
of interest people seem to have in having their own handlers or
externals support an English-like syntax like the built-in commands
have. SuperCard seems to allow this, while HyperCard, OMO, and
MetaCard do not. Even so, I've never seen this listed as one of the
advantages of SuperCard over HyperCard.
Does anyone ever make use of this feature? If not, why not? If so,
are there any problem areas? One thing I can think of is that you'd
have to be very careful about is using any built-in operators as
"syntactic sugar". Should it try to evaluate them, or should it just
pass the tokens literally in some situations? Take for example:
mycompare somevar with someothervar # 4 separate params
mycompare somevar is someothervar # only 2 params
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Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
