Richard- Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 10:51:44 AM, you wrote:
> In the meantime, what could we do with "do...as..." that we can't do by > calling Python/Perl/etc. from the command line via shell? To avoid repeating myself, see my last comment in the forum thread. The tl;dr: probably nothing, especially for one-liners, but it gets progressively more complex once you start executing longer scripts. And I still think there's a cognitive difference between do tScript as "perl" and get shell("perl" && tScript) -- -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