[TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality

[Mike Kerner]

And this won't be truly great until I can

put "y" into x
put 1 into value(x)

because I can use this to get values but not set them, so I'm still stuck
with

do "put 1 into"&&x


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:32 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 8/3/2014, 7:52 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> Just did a quick test, New Stack, one fld "testField", in the msg box:
>>
>> put "hello" into fld ("test" & "Field")
>>
>> works fine
>>
>
> It's very useful in repeat loops, for this sort of thing:
>
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of btns
>   set the hilite of btn ("answer"&&x) to false
> end repeat
>
> It works for the name of any object. I don't know if the failure with
> custom properties is a bug or an oversight, but it is definitely
> inconsistent.
>
>
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