Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ulysses!kautz From: kautz@allegra.att.com (Henry Kautz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Hypertalk syntax? Message-ID: Date: 2 May 90 13:51:32 GMT Sender: netnews@ulysses.att.com Reply-To: kautz@allegra.att.com Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 Is there a formal, complete, correct syntax for Hypertalk anywhere out there? BNF or something similiar? I've found it extremely frustrating that constructions that seem to be syntactically correct often don't work. For example, consider the commands "Go to" and "Edit script". The argument of each is a "target". So why are Go to first card of stack "Foobar" Edit script of stack "Foobar" Edit script of first card perfectly acceptable, while Edit script of first card of stack "Foobar" is not? (Or is the horrible truth that Hypertalk doesn't really have a syntax, and the compiler is really just a random mess of spaghetti code???) -- ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: allegra!kautz :arpa/internet: kautz@allegra.att.com or kautz@research.att.com :csnet: kautz%research.att.com@RELAY.CS.NET :old csnet: kautz%allegra@btl.csnet