Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!zog.cs.cmu.edu!tgl From: tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: HyperCard syntax reference found Summary: Finally, some hard information! Message-ID: <2992@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 15 Sep 88 16:01:02 GMT Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 24 This may be old news to some of you, but I didn't know about it. Judging from recently asked questions in this group, it'll be news to others also. Apple has finally published the HyperCard Script Language Guide in book form; you don't have to go to APDA to get it. I have in my hands a copy which I found at a local B. Dalton's last night. It's hardcover, $22.95, 300 plus pages, well laid out and printed. It appears to be a very recent publication: the printing date is July 1988, and there is an appendix covering HyperCard 1.2 features. THIS BOOK ANSWERS A LOT OF QUESTIONS: like what the language syntax *really* is, the search path for handlers in cross-stack situations, and all those other things that Goodman and others ignored or waved their hands about. I have not had time to go through it carefully, but it looks like the first reliable, complete and concise reference book for HyperTalk. The book is published by Addison-Wesley, and its ISBN is 0-201-17632-7. Any halfway competent bookstore can order it for you given the info above... -- tom lane Internet: tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: !zog.cs.cmu.edu!tgl BITNET: tgl%zog.cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma