Peter, I would consider it high praise, not something else. Over here in The Colonies, there are many references to "The Mothership", and I can't think of one that is derogatory.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com > wrote: > Kay C Lan wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > >> Good find. How did you come across that bit of archaeology? > > > > Not that good, what you really need to know is whether the enhancement > > request was ever actioned. > > I'd guess the URL form remains as Jacque described, a whole-file > operation. It only takes a couple extra lines to do the open/write/close > alternative, and in the minority of cases in which we need fine-grained > control over file I/O it's no more onerous than the only file I/O syntax > the root tongue, HyperTalk, offered. > > It'd be nice to have, but the team has a long list ahead of them, and > relatively few engine contributions from the community to fill in the gaps > on these nice-to-haves. > > I'm just grateful we have the various "open file" modes at all - being > able to use "update" and "append" are godsends for a wide range of tasks > involving large files. > > Even better, Mark Waddingham updated the file I/O stuff a few versions > back so that it can accept >32-bit values for the length in the file spec, > allowing us to traverse files > 4 GB. It's not often I have to do that, > but I discovered the older limitation when I was given a 6.2 GB file to > slice and dice and now I can do so with ease, using "seek" to jump around > in the file to get the parts I need. > > > > I was searching the QCC DB to ensure I wasn't duplicating a Bug report > > when, like most archaeological digs, I stumbled across a gem. > > Your find prompted me to do a search in the bug DB for all reports that > include "sc...@runrev.com" among the commenters and found some other gems > from the olden days, like this useful tidbit I never knew before (is this > documented?): > > ...you can use numbers of the form "0xFFFFFFFF" directly > in scripts, saving you the rigamarole of using numToChar > to build them up... > <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295#c5> > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
