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From: hmarvel@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Howard P. Marvel)
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Subject: Re: Hypertalk syntax?
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Date: 2 May 90 14:28:00 GMT
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In article <KAUTZ.90May2095132@tzero.allegra.att.com> kautz@allegra.att.com writes:
>Is there a formal, complete, correct syntax for Hypertalk anywhere out
>there?  
Try "HyperCard Script Language Guide:  The HyperTalk Language," published
by Addison-Wesley


>	Edit script of first card of stack "Foobar"
doesn't work.  To quote the above-cited book, "You cannot refer to an object
directly within another stack. You have to go to the stack before you can
address it objects directly"  (p. 40)
>
>(Or is the horrible truth that Hypertalk doesn't really have a syntax,

Apparently not.

>and the compiler is really just a random mess of spaghetti code???)

What compiler?
>	
>---- Henry Kautz