Yeah, I'm not by any means saying FileMaker is perfect. It has limitations I can't stand as well. Every environment I know does. I wish LC also had J's unlimited ability to handle arrays, and reversible functions, and several other features.
I also wish -- desperately -- that LC had LISP's macros. It would be so awesome to be able to define new syntax. First class functions are a good idea as well. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > One of the things that frustrated me with Filemaker is that references to > tables were constants. You could not by script save the name of a table in > a variable, and then reference the table by name. At the time it was > essential to me to be able to do that, so I could set some environment > variables at the outset depending on the company being edited, and have my > code access the set of tables via their variable names. > > Also, while a graphical "code" editor may seem like a good idea at first, > in practice it turns out to be quite a slow way of doing things. > _______________________________________________ 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
