At 23:36 1/19/2001, Tom Jacobs wrote:
>Can dot syntax be used to access a property list element whose property 
>name is constructed as a string?
>
>myList = [#a1: "one", #a2: "two", #a3: "three"]
>myProp = "a" & 1

Will bracket syntax do?

put myList[myProp]

No Director on this machine to test with, but you could also try:

myProp = symbol("a" &1)
put myList.myProp


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