Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 11 Feb 2020, at 6:10 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Can the merge function be extended to support scripts interleaved >> between blocks of non-code? >> >> e.g. this works in Server, and not in Merge: >> >> <?lc if there is a file "something" then ?> >> This is some non-code >> <?lc else ?> >> Some other non-code >> <?lc end if ?> > > I suspect it could but might require merge to do two parses to execute > server style then execute merge style so in the end it might be better > to have a separate function. A way to just parse once and execute > multiple times like a regular script would be useful. Perhaps the > engine could maintain a stack of compiled server style scripts like it > does for regex. I’m not overly sure it adds a great deal to the > platform though. Probably use cases for this are better served my > multi-line string literals.
Like heredoc? https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17471 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
