Persistent global variables are a major benefit of Frontier and its Object Database. Frontier Verbs Frontier's vocabulary consists of several hundred verbs. These verbs are identical to functions in conventional programming languages. Various computer languages call these elements by different names, including subroutines, procedures and handlers. We refer to them as verbs because they are most often used to direct Frontier or some other program with which Frontier is interacting to do something.
Action is the province of verbs in human speech.
The most important verbs can be divided into 21 categories. Verbs Summary Category Uses, Comments and Notes basic Handle numbers, datatypes, objects, etc. Looking at file and folder contents, read and write text files, deal with volumes, parse path names, lock and unlock files, handle Macintosh aliases, etc. Find out where the mouse is and if the button is being pressed. As discussed earlier in the manual, the full name of a verb is composed of its category, followed by a period, followed by the name of the verb.