browse keys (@bk)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:41:18PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > > If I press 'a', @BK is "a".  If I press 'A', @BK is "A".
> > 
> > I tested it with something like
> > 
> > :@bk eq "x":show popup "little x";end:
> > :@bk eq "X":show popup "BIG X";end:
> 
> ITYM:
> 
> :@bk eq "x":show popup "Either an upper- or lowercase 'x'";end:
> :@bk eq "X":show popup "A major malfunction has occurred!";end:
> 
> > And I got little x both ways; we aren't trying to say that "eq" isn't
> > case sensitive, are we?
> 
> Are you saying that eq _is_ case sensitive?  (It certainly looks that
> way, since that's the only way your code could work.)

Never mind.  I always forget that "eq" doesn't mean "is equal to" in
filePro.  My bad.

> > Yeah.  I see it.  I'd have gone for consistency, I think, and outlawed
> > "=" too, but maybe it's just me.
> 
> I think this one falls under the "don't use it if you don't want it"
> category.

Well, my point was that I think it falls into the "don't give the
programmer false hope about their expectations and reflexes" category:
if the rest of them don't work, then I would have locked off the whole
group.

Cheers,
-- jra
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