Re: Handlers in a variable
Re: Handlers in a variable
- Subject: Re: Handlers in a variable
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:34:51 +0000
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Phil Stokes wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2016, at 19:25, has <email@hidden> wrote:
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> p.s. If Chris really wants a "clever" meaty challenge to sink his teeth into that *will* be of great benefit to users, he should fork and reimplement AS's 'compiler' as an incremental AS parser library which editors such as Script Editor can use to provide instant as-you-type code-coloring, auto-completion, "What is this?" tooltips, and all the other excellent and extremely *end-user-friendly* code editing features that other language users are coming to take for granted. (Although one does wonder if it wouldn't just be simpler to write a brand new language from scratch...)
Well, quite. This is what I was trying to say in the other thread (Re: Grammar Police), although what I was asking for was a good deal less demanding (but apparently still in the realms of “A.I.").
Dunno who told you incremental parsing is "A.I.", but they're
talking through their fundament. It'll be a bit of a pain to do for
AS due to its magical keyword injection BS, but it's not magic: just
go goggle the term "incremental parser". All of the above ought to
be an essential part of the core UX for any non-legacy language
nowadays; doubly so for end-user programming languages where users
need all the constant in-depth assistance they can get.
has
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