Re: Bug or feature? or: Don't I love the mechanics of expansion
on 17/3/03 1:42 am, Victor Eijkhout wrote > Reading the man page for "send". It says (I couldn't manage to > cut/paste from the dictionary. is that possible?) Geoff's responded on your main point, explaining how what looks like runaway expansion is actually quite reasonable and predictable. But in answer to your question: hold down the option (alt) key and run the mouse over the text you want to grab: it will be placed in your clipboard. It isn't intuitive, but it's handy and it works! (It's documented in the 'tips' stack - not sure if it's anywhere else. I find that it's worth flipping all the way through the tips stack every now and then - something usually catches my eye that wasn't relevant to me the last time, but is now. Also, I have it set to show me a tip once a day - that's often enough to be useful, but not so often it's annoying if I'm having a bad day..) regards, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Bug or feature? or: Don't I love the mechanics of expansion
Exactly one step of evaluation is performed. So if you say send "tt the aaa of me" it will in fact work, and result in "a" being put. When you say send tt && the aaa of me What happens is that tt && the aaa of me is resolved (by the && operator) into "tt a" which is then passed to the evaluator for that one step of evaluation, which results in "a" being interpreted as a variable, resulting in 1 in the message box. On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Victor Eijkhout wrote: This bug took me an hour or two to find. I don't think I like it. on tt arg put arg end tt on t set the aaa of me to "a" put 1 into a send "tt" && the aaa of me to me end t Guess what the outcome of `send "t" to field "whatever" is... Reading the man page for "send". It says (I couldn't manage to cut/paste from the dictionary. is that possible?) "If the message is more than one word, it must be enclosed in double quotes". That is clearly not true in the above case. It also says "Any parameters are evaluted", giving as example. That is less than the whole truth: based on this I would write which of course is completely incorrect. Anyway, solution: send "tt" && quote & the aaa of me & quote I guess the correct statement would be "send expr to : the "expr" is an expression that yields a string of the form "command arg1,arg2,...". The "argn" expressions are evaluated in the corrent context, and the resulting command is sent to the whatever handler." Ok, quiz time: what is the output of on t arg1,arg2 put arg1 end t on tt set the aa of me to 3,4 send "t" && the aa of me to me end tt (I guess, for clarity, another clause is could be added in the above definition.) -- Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Bug or feature? or: Don't I love the mechanics of expansion
This bug took me an hour or two to find. I don't think I like it. on tt arg put arg end tt on t set the aaa of me to "a" put 1 into a send "tt" && the aaa of me to me end t Guess what the outcome of `send "t" to field "whatever" is... Reading the man page for "send". It says (I couldn't manage to cut/paste from the dictionary. is that possible?) "If the message is more than one word, it must be enclosed in double quotes". That is clearly not true in the above case. It also says "Any parameters are evaluted", giving as example. That is less than the whole truth: based on this I would write which of course is completely incorrect. Anyway, solution: send "tt" && quote & the aaa of me & quote I guess the correct statement would be "send expr to : the "expr" is an expression that yields a string of the form "command arg1,arg2,...". The "argn" expressions are evaluated in the corrent context, and the resulting command is sent to the whatever handler." Ok, quiz time: what is the output of on t arg1,arg2 put arg1 end t on tt set the aa of me to 3,4 send "t" && the aa of me to me end tt (I guess, for clarity, another clause is could be added in the above definition.) -- Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
