Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus?

[Doug Lerner]

On 2/10/04 9:52 AM, "Dar Scott" <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 05:43 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>>     thisStudent.age + thatStudent.age
> 
> thisStudent["age"] + thatStudent["age"]
> 
> ...is admittedly 6 characters over yours.

Yes, associative arrays are essentially properties. In JavaScript you could
actually write it either way. Usually the way you wrote it would be used if
the property name itself were a dynamic value.

But what about a similar notation for

    set the hilite of button "thisButton" of card "thisCard" of stack
"thatStack" to true

Something like

    thatStack.thisCard.button:thisButton.hilite = true

might be convenient...

doug