Ah! Once again, crystal clear explanations from Jacque. Thanks that makes sense now.
On Oct 9, 2012, at 10:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/9/12 11:28 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Still don't understand what "Variable Preservation" was supposed to do >> though. It sounds like a different thing than "explicit variables" or >> "variable checking". > > It's largely historical now. In the olden days, editing and recompiling a > script would wipe the values of script local variables and set them to empty. > That meant you had to add lines of code to re-initialize them so they'd still > work after every edit. It not only made us crazy, it made the RR team crazy > too, so one of the first things they did after RR obtained the engine was to > change that. The option to go back to the old behavior is still there but I'd > be surprised if anyone actually prefers to use it. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.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
