Transcript and Dot Notation
Peter T. Evensen
pevensen at siboneylg.com
Fri Feb 24 17:25:25 EST 2006
At 03:58 PM 2/24/2006, Andre Garzia wrote:
>So why can't we do transcript-ish things like:
>
>set the stopColor of TrafficLight to red
>
>set the interval of TrafficLight to 20 secs
Would there be any reason to distinguish between custom properties and a
object property? If not, I see the above working.
>and call methods like
>
>send "go" to traffic light...
That works for methods, but how about functions?
I have never liked the current transcript syntax of
Value("GetCurrentColor()", TrafficLight). TrafficLight.GetColor() is
much more readable, in my opinion.
Peter T. Evensen
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