I concur with Ken. So many environments do not allow the use of spaces. Some are case sensitive. The solution for me? Always use a-z lowercase names, never capitalize anything. Otherwise I WILL end up biting my own butt.
Bob On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> The tendency of programmers to use non-human-like language for object names >> really drives me more than nuts. LiveCode allows for spaces in object and >> file names. Use them! > > Mark, although I can appreciate your feelings about this, there are > legitimate reasons one might not want to use spaces in object names: > > 1) It is more efficient as it takes less characters to type > 2) You can quickly select the name of the object by double-clicking it > 3) You can more easily distinguish object names from text strings when > glancing through your code > 4) Most other languages don't let you do this, so If you use multiple > languages it would be better to have a consistent style across languages. > > Just my 2 cents, > > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. > Email: k...@sonsothunder.com > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.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
