Re ...

In fact when I start out a new app, I:
- write myself a brief [what the app is, what is should do, with a few
ideas
on how]
- draw the interface and pricipal windows
- write the manual [or sketch it out in such a way that I know what I
should
be implementing and how]
- conceive the data structures [this part allows me to determine the
sort of
records that I'll be needing internally, for saving data, for
cancelling,
for passing messages internally...]
- coding


Erm.. thanks for the gnomic utterances...

Whilst I agree with you in principal, _I_ don't know everything when I
set off. In fact I still don't know when I have arrived?. (I don't know
everything that I can do with FB, or the toolbox, or what 'improvements'
sic will occur to me in process.) I think a lot of people using FB are
autodidacts, like me, and the scope of what we can achieve is constantly
changing.

For me program design is similar to many other design problems in that
it involves successive generation/evaluation loops while a solution
space is defined.

I call stickonstack a couple of times, and HandleMangle dozens of times.

Somehow, you've got to set the parameters that you send to a function,
whether they are part of a Parameter/Record Block, or not.
For me this method is actually tidier, but I would welcome alternates.

Top Down or Bottom Up

Ah well

Bottoms Up

Ian

PS I have not had any trouble with Fn stickonstack. I get the warning,
but it works fine.

PPS I sure am glad I threw some petrol on this thread..

PPPS I'll stick your methodology on the wall. Its a good guide.