Transcript and Dot Notation

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 4:25 PM -0600 2/24/2006, Peter T. Evensen wrote:
>>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.


Hmm.

   get the currentColor() of trafficLight

seems even more readable to me. Or, where trafficLight is actually a class,

   get the currentColor() of trafficLight "My Light"

(I agree that the value syntax for this is clumsy; I suspect it 
doesn't come up more often as a problem mostly because people tend to 
use getProp handlers for this sort of thing, rather than function 
calls, so the clumsiness is avoided.)
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