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From: maller@applelink@apple.com (Steve Maller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: New feature for 2.1 wanted
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Date: 8 Oct 90 23:24:31 GMT
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In article <21064@well.sf.ca.us> via@well.sf.ca.us (Tony Cecala) writes:
> I agree completely that row/column functionality should be added
> to HyperCard fields.

This is a highly-requested feature, but one that would be much trickier 
than you think from HyperTalk's point of view. Everything inside of 
HyperCard can be referred to as plain text (fields, properties, variables, 
chunks, etc...). If you implement a spreadsheet-type field, how will you 
refer to parts of it? In a way that is smooth from one variable type to 
another.

We argued about this feature (and arrays, too) and decided that it would 
be too much of a kludge in the native HyperTalk lexicon. Maybe someday if 
we can figure a *clean* way of doing it...

Steve Maller
HyperCard Engineering Team
Apple Computer
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I speak solely for myself in these matters