You're forgiven, Peter. Joe Wilkins Architect
On Feb 18, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > I picked this trick up from someone along the way, on this list I believe, > I've lost track of where it came from, so credit goes to someone else. You're > right, Joe, commenting something as opaque as this (at least at first glance) > is advisable, especially when you're sharing code. I can only plead that I > wrote this at 11:30 PM after a 15 hour working day, so I was focusing only on > getting it right, not on explaining it. > > Long live the use-LC list! > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > >> True Ken, but w/o comment it is much more difficult to know what is going >> on. If you're going to use one liners like this, you'd better add some >> commentary. One of the weaknesses I see in LC coding is the shortage of >> comments. I realize that is a strong-point of LC; it is "almost" >> self-commenting, but... >> >> >> IMHO, >> >> Joe Wilkins >> >> On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> >>>> function roundUp x >>>> return trunc(x) + char itemoffset((x mod 1 > 0),"true,false") of "10" >>>> end roundUp >>> >>> VERY clever, Peter! >>> >>> That's a great one-line variant to: >>> >>> function roundUp x >>> put trunc(x) into tRetVal >>> if x mod 1 > 0 then add 1 to tRetVal >>> return tRetVal >>> end roundUp >>> >>> :D >>> >>> 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
