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

[Richard Gaskin]

David Burgun wrote:

>> 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.
>
> This sounds and looks just horrible!

WTM?  !comf w/abbr?

(Translation:  What's the matter?  Not comfortable with abbreviations?")

I'm with you:  Transcript's existing abbreviations are about as sparse 
as I'd like to go.

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