On 8/26/05 11:36 AM, "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ken- > > Friday, August 26, 2005, 7:13:32 AM, you wrote: > >> How about the opposite? Stop using the *long* form... it means less typing >> and you get the same effect (see your subject line)... (he said, dodging >> fruit) ;-) > > ...in that case *all* my stacks would stop working... > > <fruit> > > A Modest Proposal: > > How about if we eliminate both and enforce just a single-character > typing convention for objects and numeric values only for object > identification? That way "field 3 of card 7" would come out to "f3c7" > for a minimum of typing. The engine's parser would, of course, > separate these into separate tokens "f 3 c 7" and be quite happy. > Developers would have to type just four characters and the code would > be much more readable because there's just one way to describe an > object instead of two. The engine's parser would also run faster > because it wouldn't have to discriminate between two different forms > of object description. > > </fruit> See now you're getting dangerously close to dot notation: set c7.f3.name to "Ken" (Hey! Who threw the watermelon?) ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
