Yeah, I started out in FORTRAN a half century ago, and I have habits from that.
> On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Jerry Jensen <je...@jhjensen.com> wrote: > > >> On Jun 9, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: >> >> On 06/09/2016 05:11 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >>> True, true. in that example the “;” separates the declaration command from >>> the assignment command. My mistake. >>> >>> However, here is an example that does the assignment right in the >>> declaration command, on the fly: >>> It seems to work (!). Honestly, I half expected it to fail on the first do. >> >> Yeah, I'm always surprised when do statements succeed.<g> >> >> I know the syntax works, or at least most of the time. I just think I >> remember a discussion in the past about not doing this. But maybe I'm the >> only one who thinks this happened. > > I’m still in the habit of not assigning value in declarations, and I’m > sticking to it. I don’t like declarations in the middle of executing code > either. When I’m curious about the details of a variable, I look at the top. > Heck, I still use i,j,k,l,m,n variables for integers when there is such a > thing. Harumph! > > Song over, > .Jerry > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
