Re: Local / lazy referencing

The problem with this is that some other box can set

  yourbox.org = blah;

Now when you run code on your box that does stuff like this:

  xwt.apply(org.xwt.foo.bar);

It's going to break.

  - a

"Brian Alliet" <[email protected]> writes:
> Charles Goodwin said:
> > I mean... for sanities sake, we have to be able to do the following:
> >
> > thisbox.foo;
> > thisbox.bar = 5;
> >
> > foo = bar * 2;
> 
> Nope, you can't. You have to use thisbox.foo = thisbox.bar * 2. You can
> just type "width", "height", and any other special box property though.
> 
> I don't really agree with this either. I'd rather be able to do foo = bar
> * 2. My original declare before use patches allowed this but requiring
> thisbox.foo simplifies the code in the core a bit.
> 
> -Brian
> 
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