Bob Sneidar wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2017, at 09:58 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> E.g. this:
>>
>> put arrayEncode( the customProperties["Prefs"] of stack "Prefs" ) \
>> into url ("binfile:"& specialFolderPath("Preferences") & \
>> "/MyPrefs.dat" )
>>
>> ...is readable enough, but far from English.
>
> I would not do it that way. To make it more readable I would use:
>
> put the customProperties["Prefs"] of stack "Prefs" into tPrefs
> put "binfile:"& specialFolderPath("Preferences") & "/MyPrefs.dat"
> into tFilePath
> put arrayEncode(tPrefs) into url tFilePath
>
> That is english readable...
I checked my OED and I couldn't turn up an entry for customProperties,
binfile, or arrayEncode, URL is defined differently, and none of the
expressions I've seen in Fowler's Modern English Usage require square
brackets or stray ampersands outside of quoted material. ;)
> ...as much as can be expected.
Exactly.
Computers aren't people; no programming language, even the readable ones
like Lua and LiveCode, will bear much resemblance to English.
The team has removed most references to "English-like" from the lc.com
and .org sites, and the more I spend time with other scripting languages
the less I use the phrase myself.
> I think that trying to make the code compact is counter to making the
> code readable.
Agreed, though there is sometimes a satisfying sense of completeness to
a single statement with nested expressions that does so much.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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