Re: lingo-l Negative verbose statement

2004-09-29 Thread Carl West
Petro Bochan wrote: Hello, In this behavior: property aSprite property aValue on beginSprite me set the aSprite of me to sprite the spriteNum of me set the aValue of me to 9 end beginSprite on doSomething me set the aValue of me to the -aValue of me end doSomething -- using verbose

RE: lingo-l Negative verbose statement

2004-09-29 Thread Petro Bochan
Thanks folks, it helped a lot. So the solution I was looking for is: set the aValue of me to - the aValue of me it works even without brackets! Great! All the best Petro Bochan [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To

RE: lingo-l Negative verbose statement

2004-09-29 Thread roymeo
And without the brackets it makes it more confusing to read! Horay! roymeo At 12:30 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: Thanks folks, it helped a lot. So the solution I was looking for is: set the aValue of me to - the aValue of me it works even without brackets! Great! All the best Petro Bochan

Re: lingo-l Negative verbose statement

2004-09-28 Thread roymeo
x = -1 * x modern lingo syntax could be: aValue = -1 * aValue aValue = -(the aValue of me) ? (untested) the aValue of me is the entire name of the variable you're going after here, so you need to make sure the negative is outside the entire 'variable'. At 03:47 PM 9/28/2004, you wrote: Hello, In