But LiveCode is not C. In LiveCode an array is a value, not a special kind of
variable.
put "abcd" into cup 1 of that egg carton in the box labeled
"alphabetBlocks"
(I know, Dar sees the world funny.)
> On Jul 9, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Richard Gaskin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
> > On 7/9/2016 1:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >> After all, how does one express an array in English? :)
> >
> > "Egg carton". Devin taught me that while brandishing a prop at one of
> > our teaching sessions.
> >
> > put "abcd" into cup 1 of eggcarton "alphabetBlocks"
>
> Conceptually the metaphor works well. But in code I think we're all grateful
> for the conciseness of:
>
> put "absc" into alphabetBlocks[1]
>
> Besides, as Mark Wieder suggested, if we were to pursue English-like patterns
> for that, once we introduce eggcarton objects we'd be obliged to add egg
> objects as well, and decide what a chicken object is. And after that we'd
> have to explain to new users which gets initialized first, the chicken or the
> egg.
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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