Richard- Friday, October 19, 2012, 7:47:22 AM, you wrote:
> I've since added a bunch of shortcuts I use all the time, like listing > globals vars and props, and stack lists, and the message path, and other > stuff, and then I started down the road of implementing a few shell > calls like "ls" and "cd" - and of course now the challenge is to stop > doing that so I can just post it for others to use. I have an update > for devolution in the works that'll include it once I get a few client > things out of the way. It'll be MIT licensed so folks can tear it apart > and make their own if they want. ! Looking forward to that. > Some history trivia for those who might care: Thanks. I do care. > I write tons of code, and then I have to also write unit tests and > harnesses for it - and I need a new feature that requires even more > discipline? :) <sigh> Look, as a qa engineer let me state the truism that the earlier in the development process you can find bugs, the cheaper it is to fix them. The idea of enforcing explicit variable declarations is to catch some bugs at compile time rather then waiting for them to appear at runtime and force you to debug what happened. Have you ever typed something like "if theversion > 4.5 then" instead of "if the version > 4.5 then" Easy enough to find if it's in front of you like that, but what if it's buried in several hundred lines of code? With explicitVars enabled the compiler will tell you what line of code failed when you press the Apply button. I believe in letting the compiler help me rather than fighting against it. That's the whole reason I enable explicitVars. I can't count the number of stupid typos I've caught this way in my code, in other people's code, and in the IDE. Stuff that should never have gotten out the door in the first place, and wouldn't if people just let the compiler exercise some "discipline". -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ 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
