On 2017-08-11 17:40, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
On 08/11/2017 02:51 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:

Naming loops in a syntactic way certainly sounds like a useful thing to do:

I should point out here that Robert Cailliau has complained about the
lack of named loops as one of the main deficiencies of LiveCode for
some ten years now.

I know - it has come up numerous times. I wasn't presenting it as a new idea - because it most certainly isn't (although it isn't all that common, when you look across the vast range of programming languages which do exist...)

Robert has also suggested a 'with' construct, allowing quotes in quoted strings (I think his suggestion is "") and probably many other things (he did a talk many years ago which listed quite a few...)

The reality is though, as there has never been a truly concrete proposal for any of those which take into account all the constraints of the current implementation - they aren't likely to happen until someone actually has some 'time' to do the necessary thinking that is required to turn them from a theoretical notion, to an implementable specification aligned with what could actually be done.

As the topic of naming of loops came up (admittedly from a different point of view) it seemed useful to garner some more detail on the idea - since it was on quite a few people's minds :)

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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