On 2017-12-07 19:52, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Would it be possible/practical to extend the merge function to at least allow things like control structures with non-LC stuff in between them?E.g., from my earlier post: EXAMPLE B The implicit merge LC Server uses is more complete than the explicitly-called merge function. For example, the merge function doesn't handle conditionals cross non-code parts, e.g.: <?lc if a = b then ?> <p>Some data that happens to be HTML</p> <?lc else ?> <p>Some other data that happens to be HTML</p> <?lc end if ?> That'll work in LC Server, but AFAIK is incompatible with LC Script on the desktop.
Possible - yes. Worthwhile implementing in C++ in the engine - probably not...
The reason I say that is because it would be relatively straight-forward (assuming appropriate knowledge) to write an LCS script which transforms a server script into an LC stack which 'does the same thing' and then you have something far more adaptable.
A LC Server script is an alternating sequence of code and text blocks. Once you have that alternating sequence, you could replace the text blocks with a call to a handler with a parameter which is a custom prop of the stack containing the text content. Then the code would need to be transformed so that all inline commands where in a single handler, all variable decls at top-level were script locals, and all handler definitions in the code blocks next to the main handler.
The only slight tricky bit is the creation of root-scope variables if not using explicitVars. I'd need to give that some thought but doing it with a transformation written in script would mean you could (for the most part) emulate the LC server environment in the IDE - even replacing server specific commands (e.g. put output) with calls to handlers which emulate them.
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