Synonym might not be the correct term here but the dictionary could help us much more with Thesaurus and/or contextual relationships, because for the part-time coder, it's often difficult with LiveCode to know when to think of properties as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc.
Just look at the basic properties of an object: • metal (noun) - why not 'metallic' • liveResizing (could be a noun or verb?) - why not 'liveResizable' • shadow (noun) - why not 'shadowy' or 'enshadowed' ;-) OK, I guess we can forgive the adverbs - such as 'startUpIconic' - due to the relatively recent support for behaviours means that got into the mix. Overall though, LiveCode seems as grammatically regular as any other aspect of English - that's why it's so easy to make mistakes! Anyway, I'm off to boldly set some split infinitive custom properties on my array of mixed metaphors... Best, Keith.. On 6 May 2011, at 13:35, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 05/06/2011 03:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: >> "visibility" ought to be a synonym along with "vis". >> > I don't see how that makes much sense; 'visible' is an adjective, while > 'visibility' is > a noun; so how 'visibility' could be synonymous with 'visible' I just do not > see. > > Of course the language is grammatically "off" insofar as it has funny things > such as > > set the visible to true > > using a definite article before an adjective belies the claim that the > language is English-like! > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
