Re: OODL: Prototyping OpenTalk syntax - hierarchy

[DeRobertis]

At 10:06 PM +0100 on 12/1/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> put 5 into variable varName

This sounds like a verbose way of writing "put 5 into varName" not "put 5
into the variable which has the name contained in the variable varName"

(And no, I'm NOT proposing the latter as syntax!)

But, btw: Any syntax like this is horrible. Variables will be assigned
numbers at tokenize or compile time. Something like this will force NullCPU
to be able to handle dynamically numberd, allocated, and deallocated
variables, without causing variable conflicts...

These will become HORRENDUS statements, and I'm in favor of banning this
with an error message along the lines of "You dog can script with better
style.", or just a long stream of profanity.