Wow! I certainly did misunderstand. I had no idea that comma was a function. Always something new to learn.
Thanks Graham > On 5 Mar 2015, at 12:40, Mike Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Graham, I think you misunderstood my comment. The comma is actually a > function. It concatinates two string with a comma in the middle. Much > like &&. > > I got confused on this one too. But it is really helpful, especially when > working with screen coordinates. > > Mike > > On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > >> I don’t think ‘put’ is a function, it’s a command. According to the LC >> Dictionary, it expects "any expression that evaluates to a string.” So it >> is quite clever of the engine to interpret a set of numbers separated by >> commas as a string. >> >> LC has a number of helpful interpretations like this, but I'm not sure how >> many of them are official. If unofficial, then it's presumably legit (even >> if very annoying) when RunRev tightens the rules. >> >> Graham >> >>> On 5 Mar 2015, at 04:17, Mike Doub <miked...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Lookup , in the dictionary. It is a function. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, stephen barncard < >>> stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Terence Heaford <t.heaf...@icloud.com >> <javascript:;> >>>> <javascript:;>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> put 0,0,300,200 into tPrintRect >>>> >>>> >>>> why no quotes around the comma delimited list? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <javascript:;> <javascript:;> >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <javascript:;> >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <javascript:;> >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode