Re: fill and strings

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 22:10, Brian Alliet wrote:
> Keep in mind the 'foo.bar' syntax is just short for 'foo["bar"]'.
> 'foo.bar.baz.quux' is just 'foo["bar"]["baz"]["quux"]'.

Do you think that, for fill (and whatever properties take resources
although I can't think of any at the moment) should accept
".foo.bar.baz.quuz" as a string and do the automatic breakdown of it?

It'd be a big plus for convenience and for consistency.

I mean, people will see a) and try b) all the time:

a) <ui:box fill=".foo.bar.img" />

b) fill = ".foo.bar.img"
or fill = ".foo.bar." + v;

It is quite easy to differentiate between a color and a resource given
the starting '.' so, other than the argument that "it can be done
outside of the core" there is no reason it couldn't be done.
-- 
- Charlie

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