Tagging certain objects with contact, copyright, etc

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/7/04 2:18 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> I was looking to see if there was already something out there, some 
> tradition the old-timers might know about.  Or maybe something somebody 
> has already made up.

There is only one x-talk convention that I can think of. It was 
implemented back when HyperCard 2.0-style externals were first released. 
The convention allowed passing either of two specific parameters to an 
XCMD/XFCN and you would always get certain information back. The two 
params were:

!  -- XCMD/XFCN sytnax
?  -- author and/or copyright info

So if I had an XFCN called "getPixel", in addition to the normal 
programming parameters it accepted, I could also get this info back from it:

getPixel(?) --> getPixel(theXY [,theMonitor]);returns: RGB triplet
getPixel(!) --> Copyright 2004, JarJar Binks

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