The future of filePro... one major one anyway!

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Which actually brings up an interesting idea in terms of fP again...once
> you come up with the chain of thought and backreference.  What about browse
> lookups that, if you -could- have cell-based sorting with the labels as
> sort indicators, basically it's programmed to pushkey the right stuff to
> bring up a re-sorted browse lookup based on a different sorting...same
> info, different browse lookups sorted differntly.  But you're doing it
> like you'd do in Excel or whatever and it's totally transparent.  Just a
> thought...  I bet people would fall over themselves scrambling for that
> kind of functionality.

Do I correctly remember an anecdote that the reason the numeric
arguments to MID started to require quotes in, what, 3.0?, was that
someone wanted to write PacMan in filePro?

How does *that* code Reface?  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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