Bob Sneidar wrote: >> On Sep 20, 2017, at 09:42 , Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Thousands of language features >> * Thousands of language features > > unintended recursions... :-)
Au contraire, mon ami. While I'm frequently guilty of sloppy writing, in this case I was referring to the interactions of language elements.
I can use a command in one context for a certain level of complexity, but when used with function calls it may become more complex. And as part of a decision block (of-then or switch-case) even McCabe acknowledges those decision blocks add complexity. And where do, send, value, or dispatch are used, complexity grows even more. Then we consider interactions with things beyond our control, like the interactions between socket comms and firewalls, or file I/O and OSes and their file systems, and so on.
That there are thousands of language features is itself a daunting test setup. That many of these interact and affect one another compounds that many-fold.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems _______________________________________________ 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
