Re: Appearance of undefined references

[Jon Stevens]

on 9/24/2000 1:54 PM, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> But we don't add any directives to the language here.  I agree with you
> that the core language should remain small.  Real small.

How is #isNull not a directive?

> #showSmallTitle( "the title", "red")
> 
> where 
> 
> showSmallTitle(x,y) := <center><b><font color=y>x</font></b></center>

In Turbine, that is:

$navigation.setTemplate("/foo.wm")

Again, #showSmallTitle is a directive because it is prefixed with a #.

> I mean, if it was argued that adding multiple syntaxes to the language
> was important to support special tasks and repetitive tasks, here is a
> way of doing it w/o adding complexity to the engine.
> 
> Further, this allows an uber-designer to create tools for a design group
> to use to maintain consistancy in look/feel/design.

Na...Turbine already does that. You are getting off focus here.

-jon

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