point math [was: Re: Pass A URL w/Javascript]

[Robert Brenstein]

>On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 06:27  PM, Mark Brownell wrote:
>
>>This is definitely not SQML compliant but having your own markup 
>>language "means never having to say you're sorry."
>
>gees! I must be getting old, it's SGML, Standard Generalized Markup 
>Language. Several of my resent posts refer to it as SQML. Anyway I'm 
>just embarking on a search of the archives for location of stack 
>point math or point addition and subtraction. If I do this in the 
>message window "put 10 + 20,30 + 10" I get 30,40. If I "put the loc 
>of stack me into var" and try the same math, 10 + var + 10, I get 
>error. I'm trying to dock a newly opened stack to an already open 
>stack. Any suggestions? I would like to move sub-stacks around with 
>the main stack when each sub-stack opens.
>
>me
>

I think that once you put a point into a variable, you need to do 
math on it as items since parsing order changes.

add 10 to item 1 of var
add 10 to item 2 of var

Robert