Graham, I think you misunderstood my comment. The comma is actually a function. It concatinates two string with a comma in the middle. Much like &&.
I got confused on this one too. But it is really helpful, especially when working with screen coordinates. Mike On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > I don’t think ‘put’ is a function, it’s a command. According to the LC > Dictionary, it expects "any expression that evaluates to a string.” So it > is quite clever of the engine to interpret a set of numbers separated by > commas as a string. > > LC has a number of helpful interpretations like this, but I'm not sure how > many of them are official. If unofficial, then it's presumably legit (even > if very annoying) when RunRev tightens the rules. > > Graham > > > On 5 Mar 2015, at 04:17, Mike Doub <miked...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > Lookup , in the dictionary. It is a function. > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, stephen barncard < > > stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Terence Heaford <t.heaf...@icloud.com > <javascript:;> > >> <javascript:;>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> put 0,0,300,200 into tPrintRect > >> > >> > >> why no quotes around the comma delimited list? > >> > >> -- > >> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <javascript:;> <javascript:;> > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <javascript:;> > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <javascript:;> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ 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
