But when we finally make contact with another intelligent species, will we discover that all their cards are right-handed? (It goes with out saying that such a species will necessarily be using LiveCode.) If so, then importing any of their cards might result in the stack disappearing in a flash of high-energy photons.... That problem will be one of the knottiest the LC development team has had to tackle.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > So you think that card creation would be racemic in nature? As many left > handed cards as right handed? But surely someone would soon come up with a > plugin that ensured an optically pure creation of new cards. Then we would be > back to where we are now, purely left handed cards, as it should be. > > Bob > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: > >> ...a kind of quantum scrolling/fixed duality inherent in cards, so we can >> know it's state by inserting an object - Shrödinger's card? >> >> But then 50% of cards would be created with a scrollbar - unless of course, >> these are all non-local, sitting in the anti-stack that can't be accessed >> because it's in the >90% of dark code that fills all hard drives. >> >> That would explain the rumour that Time Machine was originally going to be >> called Space-Time Machine, but I'll resist considering why Parallels is >> really called that and instead, get some coffee! ;-) >> Best, >> Keith.. >> >> On 16 Jun 2011, at 05:44, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >>> Thomas McGrath III wrote: >>> >>>> Although, I suppose if you could group a card then you could scroll a card. >>> >>> Actually, I believe empty cards do scroll. ;) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
