Value of function from a group NOT in the message path

[Dar Scott]

On Jun 16, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Troy Rollins wrote:

> I also see the value in "value", but am now thinking that the model 
> for retrieval of "private properties" in the form of script locals, 
> should probably be standardized (for me) to using a getProp mechanism 
> which populates a customKey for the requester to read. Is that more 
> the recommended convention? Obviously, I'm used to having "getter" and 
> "setter" functions, which read and return object (in the true OOP 
> terms) properties and return values, but it seems that Transcript 
> enjoys a slightly different mechanism and approach for this.

Yes.

If the properties are independent of each other and of built-in 
properties, you can simply access them as you would built-in 
properties.  You don't need any getter or setter.

If you want to check the value, use setprop.

If you need to do some I/O or set dependent properties or custom 
properties, use setprop.

A dependent property need not be real and can be calculated on the fly 
with getprop.

You can store values as properties or as ephemeral values in local 
variables.

Dar Scott