This is how ChartMaker (www.flexibleLearning.com/chartmaker ) works, with only the required name-value pairs and in any order. It does make implementing modifications to chart displays a lot easier for exactly the reasons you give!
Hugh Senior FLCo > -----Original Message----- > I don't know when OL will be available or how it'll work. I only know > one thing it won't support, based on an earlier conversation with Mark > Waddingham: R-style arguments (similar in many respects to CSS values). > > In R, things like the plot command have reasonably-useful defaults, so > that you can just pass in data with nothing else and get a useful result. > > But if you want to tailor it you pass arguments in as name-value pairs, > e.g.: > > plot(cars, type="o", col="blue", ylim=c(0,12)) > > What I like about that is I'm free from having to remember parameter > order, which also means I don't need to add a hundred commas if I want > to pass in a value for the 101st param. > > With name-value pairs I can include only the options I want, and in any > order. > > Extra bonus points that the purpose of any argument is made explicit by > including its name. If I see "o" I don't need to count commas and guess > about what that applies to, I know very clearly looking at the name > provided with it that it governs the plot type. _______________________________________________ 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
