The language in and of itself has been pretty good for a while. But if they meant "replacing the browser DOM with our .pdf DOM" then that's not "improving and tightening the language" in my book and they shouldn't tried to sell it as such.
Wade.
Comments Invited on Adobe Javascript
- (deSitter)
- (40)
- Oct. 1, 2002, 11:44:40 PM EDT
Why can't they pick a better language?
- (ben_tilly)
- (37)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 06:25:28 AM EDT
I agree.
- (static)
- (4)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 08:08:22 AM EDT
Re: I agree.
- (deSitter)
- (3)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 09:48:51 AM EDT
Same language...
- (ChrisR)
- (1)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 12:21:23 PM EDT
Re: Same language...
- (deSitter)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 12:44:40 PM EDT
I didn't look.
- (static)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 10:16:32 PM EDT
You Perl people must like...
- (ChrisR)
- (31)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 03:03:22 PM EDT
not new vernacular but sigil doesnt mean sigil anymore?
- (boxley)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 04:19:33 PM EDT
I didn't invent it
- (ben_tilly)
- (29)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 07:03:51 PM EDT
Re: I didn't invent it
- (deSitter)
- (28)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 07:37:42 PM EDT
It isn't, necessarily
- (ben_tilly)
- (4)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 07:55:24 PM EDT
Re: It isn't, necessarily
- (deSitter)
- (3)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 07:58:33 PM EDT
Why is that wrong?
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 08:03:32 PM EDT
Not me
- (tuberculosis)
- (1)
- Oct. 3, 2002, 08:37:49 AM EDT
You've got life easy
- (tonytib)
- Oct. 5, 2002, 01:55:11 AM EDT
Not idiomatically.
- (static)
- (22)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 10:19:07 PM EDT
In Perl they are dereferencing operators
-NT
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 10:26:22 PM EDT
semicolon rant IV
- (tablizer)
- (20)
- Oct. 3, 2002, 01:43:33 AM EDT
Or you can use periods.
- (tuberculosis)
- (19)
- Oct. 3, 2002, 08:41:17 AM EDT
re: periods
- (tablizer)
- (18)
- Oct. 5, 2002, 12:40:32 AM EDT
re: periods
- (deSitter)
- (17)
- Oct. 6, 2002, 06:29:49 PM EDT
Huh?
-NT
- (tablizer)
- (16)
- Oct. 8, 2002, 11:40:57 PM EDT
Re: Huh?
- (deSitter)
- (15)
- Oct. 9, 2002, 11:59:35 AM EDT
Who is "everyone"?
- (tablizer)
- (5)
- Oct. 17, 2002, 03:53:17 PM EDT
Once More With Feeling
- (deSitter)
- (4)
- Oct. 17, 2002, 05:09:06 PM EDT
I don't care about the 1970's, I hate them here and now
- (tablizer)
- (3)
- Oct. 18, 2002, 11:20:43 PM EDT
Simple solution.
- (static)
- Oct. 19, 2002, 12:43:55 AM EDT
The Galileo of Computing!
- (deSitter)
- (1)
- Oct. 19, 2002, 01:54:47 AM EDT
Others complain too
- (tablizer)
- Oct. 22, 2002, 02:32:44 AM EDT
Wrong.
- (admin)
- (2)
- Oct. 17, 2002, 05:12:06 PM EDT
Re: Wrong.
- (deSitter)
- (1)
- Oct. 17, 2002, 05:34:53 PM EDT
This is a general trend
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 18, 2002, 07:25:31 AM EDT
Historical trivia that applies...
- (hnick)
- (5)
- Oct. 17, 2002, 05:41:27 PM EDT
Nah, not Kernighan and Ritchie.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (4)
- Oct. 17, 2002, 09:59:49 PM EDT
Right, Not K&R
- (hnick)
- (3)
- Oct. 18, 2002, 08:13:04 AM EDT
Don't be. Sorry, I mean.
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Oct. 18, 2002, 08:30:21 AM EDT
Re: Right, Not K&R
- (deSitter)
- Oct. 18, 2002, 12:37:33 PM EDT
Actually, might it have been a "standard" to fit terminals?
- (wharris2)
- Oct. 21, 2002, 12:00:00 PM EDT
Initial Comments
- (ChrisR)
- (1)
- Oct. 2, 2002, 06:26:07 PM EDT
Re: Initial Comments
- (deSitter)
- Oct. 7, 2002, 10:01:48 AM EDT