Pretty funny... reading the conversation and I immediately thought "pointer".
> > On Aug 9, 2017 at 4:17 PM, <Mark Wieder via use-livecode > (mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com)> wrote: > > > > On 08/09/2017 01:48 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: > One day I > dream of an object reference that we can get and use that is not a string > that needs to be resolved every time it’s used but a direct reference to the > object. Perhaps if someone tries to do a string operation on it then it would > be turned into a long id string just like when someone tries to do “1” + 1 > it’s turned into a number. But if it’s just passed around or stored in a > custom property then it remains a resolved handle to the object and can cope > with things like the ID or name or filename being changed in the session. If > we had that we would want things like `is a {stack | card | button …}` and > `{stack | card | mainstack} of`. ...and then... we could name them 'pointers' > and 'handles' and I'd be very happy. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.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
