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Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs

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Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 7:44:36 PM UTC-5, supe...@casperkitty.com wrote:
>> On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 5:09:06 PM UTC-6, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>> In the GUI editor, you highlight the flowof you're on by putting your
>>> flashing caret on it, and then it pops up in the SourceLight window.
>>> If you want to go to it, you press Alt+G and it goes there.  And if
>>> the token name is overloaded, then it will ask you which one you want
>>> to go to.
>>
>> What do you see as the advantages of that versus telescoping sections like
>> those in Visual Studio, and supported 25+ years ago by some of the INMOS
>> Transputer development software?
>
> I don't know what the term "telscoping sections" mean.  Are you talking
> about code folding / collapse abilities?
>
> Since CAlive is a LiveCode compiler (which means it is continuously
> compiling all of your code changes), things are known about the source
> code which are known only to the compiler.  As such, refactoring by
> symbol scope (and not just by name) becomes possible (not a new thing,
> but one which exists in a CAlive GUI editor).

I though most modern IDE based editors perform background compilation 
which enables them, amongst other things, to highlight syntax errors on 
the fly and highlight the correct bits of conditionally compiled code.

-- 
Ian Collins

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CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 11:20 -0800
  Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 11:27 -0800
    Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 11:34 -0800
  Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 11:57 -0800
  Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-02 12:18 -0800
    Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 12:24 -0800
      Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 12:48 -0800
    Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 12:40 -0800
  Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-02 21:08 +0000
    Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-03 10:13 +1300
      Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-02 21:14 +0000
        Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-03 10:31 +1300
          Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-02 21:48 +0000
            Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-03 11:20 +1300
              Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 14:33 -0800
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 15:03 -0800
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-03 12:05 +1300
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 15:08 -0800
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-02 16:44 -0800
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 17:20 -0800
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-03 17:06 +1300
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 20:13 -0800
              Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-03 12:43 +0000
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-11-03 14:20 +0100
                Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-04 08:57 +1300
      Re: CAlive to introduce flowofs "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 14:31 -0800

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