set rect of fld f1 of cd c1 of wd w1 to rect of fld f2 of cd c2 of wd w2

[Ken Ray]

On 8/26/05 11:36 AM, "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Ken-
> 
> Friday, August 26, 2005, 7:13:32 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> How about the opposite? Stop using the *long* form... it means less typing
>> and you get the same effect (see your subject line)...  (he said, dodging
>> fruit)   ;-)
> 
> ...in that case *all* my stacks would stop working...
> 
> <fruit>
> 
> A Modest Proposal:
> 
> How about if we eliminate both and enforce just a single-character
> typing convention for objects and numeric values only for object
> identification? That way "field 3 of card 7" would come out to "f3c7"
> for a minimum of typing. The engine's parser would, of course,
> separate these into separate tokens "f 3 c 7" and be quite happy.
> Developers would have to type just four characters and the code would
> be much more readable because there's just one way to describe an
> object instead of two. The engine's parser would also run faster
> because it wouldn't have to discriminate between two different forms
> of object description.
> 
> </fruit>

See now you're getting dangerously close to dot notation:

  set c7.f3.name to "Ken"

(Hey! Who threw the watermelon?)

;-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com