Indeed you can indirect through a variable - but you can’t do, e.g: get the foo,bar,baz of me
Which was my point :) Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. Of course an obvious syntactic extension would be allowing quoting of the property keyword: the “foo,bar,baz” of me. Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Nov 2023, at 16:14, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Mark: > > > to access your custom properties with `the X of` syntax - > > it is *this* kind of access which is *not* possible > > if the custom property name is not an identifier > > Discussion is perception - Code is reality: > > put "I,love,commas*etc" into X > set the X of me to "Hi, Mark!" > answer the X of me > > https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23512 > > Best wishes, > > Curry Kenworthy > > Radically Innovative Christian LiveCode Development > "PASSION for Elegant, Efficient Code!" > http://livecodeconsulting.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
