On 7/6/99 2:40 pm keith martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I find the first, 'put item 2 delimiter ":"' to be far more understandable
>than the other two.
>The 'by' one seems like a misuse of grammer, although I can't quite put my
>finger on why. And, Kevin, I'd say the last is more than slightly less
>intuitive! :-)
>
>I presume this would include 'put item 2 del myDel' as a shortened form of
>'put item 2 delimiter myDel'? Both long and short forms of this approach
>follow general xTalk conventions quite well, and make general English-style
>sense.
If you allow both del and delimiter, then the first item becomes the both
most easy to read and just as short as the second. And I agree the third
doesn't really make xTalk sense. So, I'll vote for the first option.
Regards,
Kevin
>k
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