when sent a message, the target can't find itself!

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/4/12 4:53 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Change it to
>>
>> put exists(the long name of the target)
>>
>> and it should behave as expected.
>
> Thanks.
>
> That got the exists() working.
>
> Maybe I'm dense, but I cant get access to the field to work the same way.
>
>    put the text of (the long name of the target)
>         yields empty, which I believe is correct, but
>    put 45 into fld (the long name of the target)
>
>
> (after all, putting something into it is the whole point.)
>
> And while I'm at it, when the script is executing, shouldn't "put 7
> into the target" work--the script is executing from a message sent to
> the target, after all.
>
>

If you substitute "field x of card y" for every instance of "the long 
name of the target" in your script, you'll probably see the problem 
right away. As Alex mentioned, the "put" line evaluates to:

   put 45 into fld (field x of card y)


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