Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus?

[Rob Cozens]

>As someone else mentioned, "x = 1" already has meaning in xTalk

Frank, et al:

For the record, I'm not just waxing theoretical here:  look through 
the handlers in any component of Serendipity Library and you will 
find statements were I use "x = 1" [or more likely "x is 1", but 
syntactically equivalent] to set boolean values.

* put (argument1 = true) into argument1 -- defaults argument1 to 
false if no argument is passed in the call.  Among other things, this 
lets calls to SDB handlers with multiple arguments, eg:

on findSDBRecord 
@sdbBuffer,exactKey,fieldDelimiter,itemList,setPosition,searchForward,searchCriteria,cutoffKey,recordDelimiter,unlockRecord


to be referenced by Revolutionists who don't need to override 
defaults as though the syntax were "on findSDBRecord @sdbBuffer"

* put (field 6 = empty) into skipField6

* put (field "Customer Balance" = 0) into addCustomerToCallList

Accommodating your request would force moi, at least, to rewrite MANY handlers.

Rob Cozens
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