On 2015-10-25 00:05, Geoff Canyon wrote:
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Monte Goulding
<mo...@sweattechnologies.com
wrote:
...
repeat for each line tLine in tText with counter tCounter
repeat for 10 with counter tCounter
repeat with tIndex = 1 to 10 step 2 with counter tCounter
repeat while condition with counter tCounter
repeat forever with counter tCounter
...
The beauty of open language (in my dreams, perhaps not the spec) would
be
that:
1. No one would have to dig into the engine to implement something like
this.
That is precisely the point.
2. You could release your "counter" version, I could release my "index"
version, and the community would decide which they prefer and go with
that.
(or both).
Since the two syntaxes being proposed don't appear to conflict in any
way, people would be free to use either as they see fit.
Even if they did conflict, they would be able to choose on a per-script
basis, or even on a per-line basis by using a single disambiguation
token.
3. And neither 1 nor 2 precludes something like this achieving critical
mass such that the engine maintainers decide to put it in the engine
directly.
It wouldn't ever need to get 'put in the engine' - Open Language will
allow a degree of modularity which cannot currently be achieved. It is
the last piece of the puzzle to make LiveCode truly extensible. Indeed,
what the 'engine' eventually becomes under this plan is just the glue
which does all the heavy-lifting to unify all the language-defining
modules together which an application uses.
Now, of course, in such a scenario there would be a need for the idea of
'Standard LiveCode' - which is essentially what 'elevating to the
engine' would become.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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