On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote:
> > My favorite annoyance with xTalks is the decision by the HyperTalk team to > allow some functions to be called as though they're properties - but not > all. You can say "get the abs of -10" or "abs(-10)", and you can say "get > offset("l", "hello") but not "get the offset of "l" in "hello". > > Stranger still, the "abs" function turns out to be an especially good > example: it's an abbreviation for which the long form ("absolute") is not > permitted. I kid you not. > These are both going to be correctable in a soon-ish time frame if the new language features meet the spec. (waiting breathlessly) _______________________________________________ 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