Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Marty Billingsley]

"Preston Shea" <darkshadow1 at metrocast.net> writes:
>
> Saying "if the visible of myObject is true," may sound a bit
> funny at first but it is very English like. Putting "the" before
> "visible" turns an adjective into a noun. Perfectly logical in a
> language that has no problems with "the running of the Kentucky
> Derby" and a fine way to refer to a property.

But there is a way of setting the property (hide and show) without
actually referring to the property "visible".  So why can't we
find out the state of the property without knowing explicitly
about it, i.e., what the property's name is?  When my students
write
  hide field "xxx"
they don't know that what they're really doing is
  set the visible of field "xxx" to false
and I'd just as soon keep that level of abstraction, at least for
my 8th graders.

Just griping....

  - marty

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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools