THE number of...

[J. Landman Gay]

erik hansen wrote:
> 
> aaaaahhhh! i just did all "the"s.

That's okay, you had to in order to import into MC. And it makes your HC
scripts faster too. MC will accept either "length(thisWord)" or "the
length of thisWord" but it will not accept "length this word" -- which I
think is what you had originally.

> this was funny: while substituting
> "tot(l," for "(the number of lines in "
> i pasted INSIDE function tot.
> HyperCard crashed. the mac crashed.
> 
> can anyone identify the "too much recursion"
> culprit?"

Do you know for sure it was a recursion error? HC usually handles those
gracefully. If we're talking about HC though, it would be better to post
the question to that list.

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