Useful shortcuts - sid-code/nmoo GitHub Wiki

Here are some useful shortcuts relevant to MOO programming. However, they have some pitfalls that must be kept in mind.

• (obj:verb-name arg1 arg2 ...) => (verbcall obj "verb-name" (arg1 arg2 ...))
• obj.prop-name => (getprop obj "prop-name")

obj, verb-name, and prop-name in all of these cannot be expressions, they must be simple symbols. For example, the following will NOT work:

• (parent obj).name
• (obj:(cat "verb-" "name"))
• (obj.prop:verb argument)

The transformations occur during lexical analysis and are meant to be simple convenience macros.