dunbarx wrote:
> Danny Goodman once said that he was unsure where the disconnect took
> place. He just said (paraphrased) "...when it seems like the code
> ought to work, but doesn't, try a "do" construction..."
Ah, but Danny's moved on to JavaScript; he didn't stick around in the
xTalk world long enough to appreciate one of LiveCode's many unique charms:
Almost every object that can act as a container has a text property, so
we don't need to bother with the odd ambiguities the HyperCard team were
enamored of by sometimes treating object references as objects and other
times as containers, instead allowing us to enjoy the consistency of
property-driven syntax.
So instead of problematic expressions like:
put the focusedObject into tObject
put resDate into tObject
..or the complex concatenated "do" form:
do "put" && quote & resdate & quote && "into" && tObject
...we can simply write with confidence:
set the text of tObject to resDate
the "do" command still has a place in LiveCode, but it's much less
frequently-needed than in HyperTalk.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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