On 05/27/2011 08:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Well we can all at least be thankful that it is not how a woman would design a
language either. Can you imagine having to hint at something and then the
computer has to figure out what you really meant? ;-)
Nothing like a bit of sexual stereotyping.
send "there sure are a lot of numbers around here not doing anything right now"
to sum
function sum
look around
gather numbers whose layingaround is true
repeat with i = 1 to the number of numbers laying around
add number i to theSum
end repeat
look around some more
if the result is true then
send "I'm not your personal adding machine!" to sum with "Here we go
again!"
end if
return the sum with hopes you got them all
end sum
Bob
On May 27, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My understanding is that the 2nd, "prose" or "property", form can only be used with functions that
require 0 or 1 arguments. All others require the "funtion(n)" form. And the "prose" form is only
allowed for native LiveCode functions, not for user-defined functions.
Have you seen any counter examples to this rule?
I can't think of any offhand.
But it's still not how I would design a language. ;)
--
Richard Gaskin
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