go to "such name" = go to stack "such name"!?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi André,

That's syntactical flexibility due to HyperCard. It as always been like 
that.

go gStackName

works too.

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On 8/21/2013 10:22, André Bisseret wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> Just discovering the following:
> In a script I put the short name of a stack into a global, say gStackName
> then another stack is opened.
> In a script in this second stack, I had put "go to gStackName instead of "go to stack gStackName
>
> and that is working!! (provided that the stack gStackName be opened, of course)
>
> I would have sworn that it was not possible!
>
> I just verifed with the message box that it was possible to go to any opened stack using (go to "this short name") instead of (go to stack "this short name")
>
> That seems not documented in the dictionnary.
>
> Am I discovering the wheel? ;-)
>
> Best regards
>
> André
>