Re: OODL: Prototyping OpenTalk syntax

[DeRobertis]

At 1:45 PM +0100 on 11/28/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>      "You can call the built-in functions of HyperCard directly and
>>       bypass any user-defined functions by using the word the
>>       before the function name. You can also use of, rather than using
>>       the parentheses syntax; however, functions having more than one
>>       parameter always require parentheses." (p. 258, "Function Calls")
>
>Anthony,
>
> I wasn't aware of that. Well, then we can't use that to call user
>functions in a more English-like way. But if I read the above right, "ln of
>e" would still call any user functions, as it doesn't have a "the", so
>maybe we could use that to our advantage. Very likely HC doesn't support
>the above syntax ... ?

I don't thinbk it supports any of the following, all of which the above
quote say it should. I'm too lazy to test them, though :(

        get value of 3
        get the value(3)