Phil,

You might also like >foo and foo>, setting and getting respectively.   
Or >>foo foo>>.  I think one of these syntaxes will be the new tuple  
slot accessors in the new object system.

Doug


On Dec 17, 2007, at 4:23 AM, Phil Dawes wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> For the last few weeks when using dynamic variables I've tended to
> create a new 'accessor' word rather than using 'foo get'.
>
> E.g. I'd do
>
> : foo  "foo" get ;
>
> I don't know what it is about the 'get' word, but for me it seems to
> interrupt the flow of the code. However I found that using @ in  
> place of
> get (like forth does) doesn't niggle nearly me as much:
>
> : @ get ;
>
> foo @ do-something-with-foo
>
> Does anybody else find 'get' gets in the way?
>
> N.B. I've held off redefining ! for 'set' for the time being (and thus
> redefining the comment character in the process), mainly because I  
> don't
> set variables very often and when I do it tends to be in a block at  
> the
> start of a scope.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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