jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) (02/07/91)
In the ".r" files distributed with MPW 3.1 I find two constructs not defined in the MPW 3.0 Development Environment Vol. 1 document (Chapter 11 and Appendix D describe Rez and DeRez): -- $$CountOf() function (Apparently returns number of elements in an array) -- type 'dctb' as 'actb' (apparently an aliasing mechanism) Are these described somewhere I've missed? Are they described in the MPW 3.1 documents? Are there any other constructs that are new after MPW 3.0 or not described in the 3.0 docs? Thanks, James Thiele microsoft!jamesth
drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) (02/13/91)
jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) writes: >In the ".r" files distributed with MPW 3.1 I find two constructs not >defined in the MPW 3.0 Development Environment Vol. 1 document >(Chapter 11 and Appendix D describe Rez and DeRez): >-- $$CountOf() function > (Apparently returns number of elements in an array) >-- type 'dctb' as 'actb' > (apparently an aliasing mechanism) >Are these described somewhere I've missed? Are they described in the >MPW 3.1 documents? Are there any other constructs that are new after >MPW 3.0 or not described in the 3.0 docs? They are discussed somewhere James missed. $$CountOf is described in the "Array type" discussion in the chapter on Rez and DeRez (it was page 316 in the 3.0 draft documentation. I don't have a copy handy of the 3.0 final docs). "AS" is discussed under the topic "AS resource description syntax" at the bottom of page 309 (Ch. 11) of the MPW 3.0 draft docs. I'm not aware of any that aren't discussed, although as we all know, they are a number that could stand more or better discussion. ;-} -- | Dennis Cohen drc@claris.com COHEN2 AFC DCohen 71076,1377 | Internet AppleLink AmerOnline CompuServe | Disclaimer: Any unattributed opinions expressed above are _MINE_!