Jacque,
I think you may have hit upon a bug. I put the following into the message
box:
answer value("This is my dog.")
and it returned a "double binary operator" and flagged the word "is" as a
bad token. Evidently it was trying to evaluate the trueness or falseness of
the expression containing "is". However, you would think that the value of a
string would be the string.
However, I tried
answer value(quote & "This is my dog." & quote)
and it returned
This is my dog.
I admit I like HC's easy way of handling strings. However, even it is a bit
arbitrary. For example, in HC
answer value(3 = 2+1)
and
answer value("3 = 2+1")
both return
true
even though I hoped to get a string back for the second. OK, Scott? Kevin?
How do the rules work?
Raymond
>
> From: Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> In HyperCard, the value of any phrase in quotes returns the entire
> phrase. In MetaCard, this:
>
> the value of "my dog"
>
> returns "my". Is this right? What are the rules?
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