Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:02 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.dialog.ask

<<on ask (prompt, adr) 
	<<local (askstring = "", buttonhit = 0)
	<<if defined (adr^)
		<<askstring = string (adr^)
	<<card.run (@dialog.cards.ask)
	<<if buttonhit != 1 <<OK
		<<return (false)
	<<adr^ = askstring
	<<return (true)
on ask (prompt, adr) {
	kernel (dialog.ask)}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.