On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Someone could write their own message box object and make it do whatever they want. Then you have both: a new interface and backwards compatibility. The message box could just be a GUI object like any other, there is nothing inherently unique about it.
It wouldn't even need to be a "GUI" object. just make it an objectbox class named [m]. Then "$1" (etc) becomes the same as in other objectboxes, and then another syntax can be used to mean message arguments. Except that if it's not a GUI object, then it's not clickable, and stuff.
User-wise, there _is_ something inherently unique to the messagebox, but it happens to be exactly the difference that we'd like to eliminate.
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