On 04.09.2009, at 20:53, Dan Ingalls wrote:
Hi, Avi
I tried to leave out the cascade syntax, but found it was too useful and had to put it back.
I love it! I've always felt a bit sheepish about cascades, but I put them in because it was a pattern that we found useful in St72 and I wanted to preserve as much as possible of that convenience.
Me too! And how well the ";" works with "." to separate statement is amazing. Others are imitating the cascade style by "chaining" but it looks weird and is limited at the same time; see e.g. this message I just got on a Python list:
Begin forwarded message:
it would be awesome to set up chaining so we could do something like
layer['timer'].save().clear(). fillStyle('#fff'). fillRect(10, startTimerY, endTimerX, offsetTimerY). restore();
- Bert -