AutoHotkey Community

interiot · Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 50

If anyone cares to, here's a ton of text that can be grepped. Some highlights:

On the other hand, some people (even those from a programming background) have said they like the current syntax, such as the lack of need for parentheses around parameter lists and quotes around literal strings. I like it too, ever since I discovered AutoIt v2 some 5 years ago -- though clearly it has its weaknesses. Jan 05, 2006
The syntax is indeed strange from a programmer's point of view. Mar 23, 2005
I realize that such volunteers tend to be in short supply because I think the AutoHotkey community has a much lower percentage of programmers than that of AutoIt. This is partially due to the difference in target audience. Aug 27, 2005
Here's the thing: I'd never intended AutoHotkey to become yet another programming language. Because of this, I ... give a lower priority to concepts only programmers would tend to use, such as classes, structures, namespaces, preprocessing, etc. Sep 16, 2006
One of the costs of adding new features is hidden: it's the documentation complexity. For example, even if a new feature were easy to implement and very small in code size, documenting it would make the GUI feature seem more complex and harder to learn/remember. Jun 16, 2006
I have this attitude because the documentation has been criticized as being too long, which I agree with. I have a large list of things deliberately omitted because I feel that including them would add more confusion than they're worth. The documentation would probably be 30% longer if they were all included. Jan 05, 2007
I want the AHK project to be responsive to what users want. For example, anyone can feel free to set up a forum poll to try to draw support for a feature they want, or a poll to vote on the priority order the planned features should be done in. Jul 15, 2004

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5298

I voted: leave it as-is

imapow · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 89 Location: Trøndelag, Norway

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garry · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 944 Location: switzerland

me2 : leave it as-is

Zippo() · Guest

I can't wait until I can type:

imapow · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 89 Location: Trøndelag, Norway

interiot · Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 50

SomeGuy · Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 92 Location: somewhere

There is a person that is working on a .NET version of autohotkey.

Guest · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: AutoHotkey philosophy

Guest · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

Zippo() · Guest

Zippo() · Guest

Wait, that code won't compile. How stupid of me.

In VB you might need to add a SUB somewhere.

And for C# you need to do the ; thing at the end of the line.

Hafta keep mommy MS happy.

Lexikos · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2359 Location: Australia, Qld

Guest · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject:

interiot · Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 50