> Try not to get your knickers in a twist. In case you haven't noticed, > hypertalk/transcript is clearly a Pascal derived language, they just got rid > of > begin/end, loosely typed it, and made the operator of affectation verbose. <ROTFL/> OMG that's funny. Don't forget scoping, and the overarching paradigm of cards, backgrounds, stacks scripts, properties, and messages and an inheritence path, and the vocabulary, and the fact that nobody could describe what it was, and the fact that it was originally intended to be interpreted not compiled, and therefore DO, and oh hell. You weren't serious so I don't have to add anything here. I mean - really - I was pretty sure xTalk was inspired by COBOL's verbose syntax and...and...<choking on my beverage/> . Now that I look at it, I'm having a hard time telling the difference between BASIC and LISP and APL. <ROTFL/> Dude, you slay me.
Ok, now in case you were serious (and if you were I'm sorry for laughing and making fun of your post) xTalk is now a legacy language type with expectations and conventions and philosophy. I'm reasonably sure that := doesn't fit that philosophy, nor does a=b. If you want compact, you need to go somewhere else. xTalk is intentionally verbose. Philosophically, I like it that way. It means that it is much easier for me to read someone else's code, especially since most of you can't write an intelligent comment in your code to save your lives. I'm going to stop reading this thread now before I REALLY get flamed. -- http://taoofrunrev.blogspot.com http://taoof4d.blogspot.com http://4dwishlist.blogspot.com On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
