[Laszlo-user] Syntactic sugar

[P T Withington]

I'd like to replace:

   v.setAttribute('x', ...);

with:

   v.x = ...;

someday.  Having an alias `set` for `setAttribute` would be a fine  
interim step.

On 2008-12-03, at 00:45EST, Max Carlson wrote:

> I've had a number of developers tell me they miss the shorthand of  
> setX(...) - 4.2 now requires setAttribute('x', ...).  This is good  
> for consistency, but it's bad for backward compatibility and makes  
> code more verbose.  setAttribute('foo', ...) requires a lot of extra  
> typing...
>
> What do you think about having the compiler expand the old setX/Y()  
> methods into the corresponding setAttribute('x/y')?  We could add a  
> terse alias for setAttribute() - set(), or maybe s()...
>
> Thoughts?
> -- 
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org