control scructure repeat and next line

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Tue Feb 17 19:12:15 EST 2004


I am sorry to say I 'knew' what you were referring to.

But your explanation is very clear and I am glad I read this.

Tom

On Feb 17, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi Dar,
>
>> On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 12:32 PM, hershrev wrote:
>>
>>>> The Revolution style is to put item and line delimiters between 
>>>> datums,
>>>> but it will also accommodate putting them after datums.  This is 
>>>> important
>>>> in representing empty datums.  If datums are never empty, then 
>>>> putting
>>>> delimiters between is fine.  I mention this, in case you are 
>>>> surprised about
>>>> how many lines are processed in such a loop.
>>> Sorry to say , but I don't know what datums are.
>>
>> Sorry.
>>
>> I mean pieces of information.  I tried to use this for a more general 
>> term for
>> lines and items.  Lines use a "line end" or "new line" character as a 
>> delimiter
>> (often called 'return' in Revolution).  Item typically use a comma as 
>> a delimiter.
>>
>> Since you are working with lines, I should have stuck with "lines".  
>> There is no
>> Revolution jargon called datum, as far as I know; this is all my 
>> fault.
>
> I was also a bit puzzled, since "datum" is the german word for "date" 
> :-)
>
>> Dar Scott
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
>
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