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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "Initialize" for HyperTalk
Message-ID: <9051@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 22 Nov 89 15:05:36 GMT
References: <1827@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <1827@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu
(James G. Smith) writes:
>   One thing I would like for Christmas is an "Initialize" command for 
>HyperTalk.  I'm tired of scripting:
>
>put empty into temp1
>put empty into temp2
>put empty into temp3
>
>when I could just say
>
>initialize temp1,temp2,temp3

A better syntax would be "local temp1,temp2,temp3".  This would be
parallel to the "global" command.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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