Re: [MacPerl] Frontier/MacPerl dictionary

[Nobumi Iyanaga <n-iyanag@ppp.bekkoame.or.jp>]

At 2:32 PM -0600 7/6/98, w e b s l a v e wrote:
> Well, here's my first attempt at creating a code comparision chart...
>
>     http://www.execpc.com/~raster/frontier/frontperl.html
>
>
> (did I mention this is my *first* attempt?)
>
> Pete

Hello Pete

I looked at your new site.  It is a wonderful beginning...!

As you know, Frontier has a very extensive "verb set".  I think that these
UserTalk verbs can be considered as a kind of library of sub-routines.  So,
it would be possible to write similar sub-routine set in Perl also.

We could stored them perhaps in lib:user, in different files according to
the category of "verbs", like
string:
   addCommas (number)
   countFields (string, delimiter)
   dateString ()
   delete (string, index, count)
   ....
file:
   bytesInFolder (path)
   bytesOnVolume (path)
   compare (path1, path2)
   copy (sourcepath, destpath)
   ...
Etc., etc...

By the way, this idea may bring up another idea: that of building a kind of
file based "Object Database" that can be used from MacPerl.  We could use
some special folder in the MacPerl folder, and store in it files containing
data or some global values, and use them from MacPerl...

What do you think...??

I would appreciate any comments.

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan




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