[DUG] Coding accross languages

[Todd Martin]

One thing I found out about JavaScript is, if you write recursive methods, 
you have to declare local variables using var. Otherwise, the local 
variables are static, which produces some very confusing results.

Todd.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neven MacEwan" <neven at mwk.co.nz>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG] Coding accross languages


> Guys
>
> One of the things I like about the PHP/Javascript combo is the
> similarity of syntax (and things like not declaring vars) so i can
> switch easily, I must be getting old because it takes me a while (and
> several coffees to switch between php/js and delphi)
>
> One thing I found out (totally by accident) is that MS SQL TransactSQL
> ignores ";"
>
> Neven
>
> Phil Middlemiss wrote:
>> Me too.
>>
>> Just about every time I switch to using Eclipse I try to do a selection
>> drag and drop - and then groan as I remember it doesn't support text
>> drag and drop. Even worse, I use Coderush in Delphi6 and really miss the
>> flexibility it gives you - like dropping markers that you can
>> immediately jump back to with Esc - hell, I'd even settle for being able
>> to drop bookmarks that you can jump back to with Ctrl+#.
>>
>> With Javascript, apart from the := assignment mistake, the other one I'm
>> always doing is forgetting to put brackets around the boolean test for
>> if..then and while loops.
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>> Paul A Norman wrote:
>>> Same here.
>>>
>>> Sometimes i find myself thinking how is "that" done here and then you
>>> realise it is not deon at all!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29/07/06, *James Sugrue* <jamessugrue at xtra.co.nz
>>> <mailto:jamessugrue at xtra.co.nz>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     My major one is wishing features from one  language was included
>>>     in the one I'm working on at the time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
>>>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz>
>>>     [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
>>>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz>] *On Behalf Of *Paul A Norman
>>>     *Sent:* Saturday, 29 July 2006 3:06 p.m.
>>>     *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>>>     *Subject:* [DUG] Coding accross languages
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     How do people find the whole thing of working with Delphi and then
>>>     several other languages in the same day?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Do you ever ocassionally go to do an assignment in clientside
>>>     JavaScript as
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>             something := somethingElse;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Or            if (this = that) {whatever;}
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     And end up staring at the error report unable to see what could be
>>>     wrong?
>>>
>>>     :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Paul
>>>
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