Another good piece of advice is watch namespaces. The parser looks at all tokens, so avoid the use of names that match language functions, commands or properties. A handler named answerDialog for instance, is bound for trouble.
This usually can be avoided by using the 'standard' prefixes as explained here clearly by Mr. Gaskin. http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/scriptstyle.html All this info is good, re this topic - scroll down to 'naming conventions'. On 25 July 2011 09:40, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
