put empty into a put "a b c" into item put 1 into char put 2 into word if true then repeat with word char of item = char char to word of word char of char to...
First off, Dan wasn't an unhappy man. Second, Dan was careful not to use reserved words as variables; he thought they might lead to confusion within the IDE....
Oh yes... you don't have to tell me :) The problem with HyperTalk is that it didn't have a formal grammar or holistic language parser when it was first...
... Oh yes, most definitely Godlike. Along with Bill Atkinson, of course; these two guys are my idols. In my mind, God is a saddist too, so it's a compliment....
... Oh really? :D ... Claris/Apple defined a formal grammar? And it's only L3? How do you know this? Have you seen it? (Sorry, I'm just really really curious!...
... Seems like maybe a good time to pose a question that's been rattling around in the back of my mind for a while now... According to wikipedia and other...
... Well... it's not that NO computer scientist would create an syntax flexible language like HyperTalk, it's just that very few of the ones I've known would....
The docs say that not all menus will respond to "doMenu which", still in the language to accomodate HC imports. I wanted to open the object inspector for a...
... Yay! The interesting thing about me is I'm pretty double-sided; I like obscure symbol operators, and I like syntactic sugar; I love C and I love HyperTalk....
... Sounds like we've got a similar vibe when it comes to languages. I regularly use the ternary conditional operator because I actually think it makes things...
At 15:28 -0800 2009.03.02, Rebecca Bettencourt provided this snippet, ... I've been retired for over ten years, having spent a long and interesting career in...
Arthur Evans Jr
evanssl21@...
Mar 3, 2009 3:58 pm
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... Why is it even allowed? It would not only obviate the risk of confusion, but streamline the parser as well. This leads me to a question I've been...
... You can always just ask for the short name. The other variants of that property are useful, but sometimes I don't want the extra information. I ask for...
... 1. Bundling. 2. Define "magic". The latter isn't meant to be argumentative; it's a sincere question. For example, as much as I enjoyed HC itself, it wasn't...
... But you would then have many more properties. I find it more intuitive and compact to have one property with several logical variations than to have lots ...
... intuitive and ... have lots ... My writing may have been clumsy. What I had intended to convey was that the actual properties would remain the same as...
Hi Josh and y'all, On the *contrary*, I find this thread FASCINATING! :-)) There have been several parsers and/or interpreters for our future xTalk enjoyment....
... Two smart guys = Bill Atkinson + Dan Winkler Two smart guys = Tyler Vano + Rebecca Bettencourt? Two smart guys = Joshua Gertzen + Ted Howard! I think a big...
My beeps are out of whack. "Beep" or "Beep 1" gives one beep. Beep anything greater than one gives one fewer beeps, so "beep 4" gives three beeps. Just me? And...
Yes. I added the beep thingie, and since I got no answer to the menu question , I thought I would toss it in again. Craig Newman ************** A Good Credit...
Mac OS7 is said to run on the iPhone. I don't have one to try myself but, Did anyone ever successfully run HC on the iphone? That's definitely a reason to go...
... Wrong question. HyperTalk alone isn't what makes HyperCard so wonderful. It's the magic (as Aaron Wolfe said) that we love, the whole intuitive GUI and...
Arthur Evans Jr
evanssl21@...
Mar 3, 2009 10:57 pm
27608
... Processor speed. You're lucky you get more than one (must be an older- slower machine). New processors are so fast they run through the beeps faster than...
... Aha! That would explain why, the last time I ran HC and played my scripted Tocatta & Fugue in D-minor, it seemed as if it was dropping every third note or...
Ken. This is all in Rev, not HC. And yes, beeping in a repeat loop gives me the right number, and I see that the docs warn against too many beeps when invoked...
... HyperCard doesn't have an Object Inspector, or a menuPick message, nor does it let you send a message to a menu. So I think you're looking for the Rev...
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