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

[André Bisseret]

Thanks Mark for your confirmation

Best regards

André


Le 21 août 2013 à 10:37, Mark Schonewille a écrit :

> 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
>> 
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