[TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality

[Peter Haworth]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> There are some extremely rare cases where "do" is useful, but most uses I
> come across are just habits held over from more limited xTalks like
> HyperCard.


Here's the one that catches me every time:

set the (<any expression here>) of button "xyz" to 10

That results in a compile error "token is not a property".  Tried it using
"value" too but same error.  The only way round this I've found is to use
"do" but why can't the compiler handle this?

Pete
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