Compound object references

Where a hierarchy of objects exists it is not necessary to extract each object reference separately so the following expression

OBJECT b = a.List()
 OBJECT c = b.Next()

could be shortened to

OBJECT c = a.List.Next()

These expressions can be of arbitrary length.

OBJECT a = A.B.C(10,20).D(1).E("hello")

However there is a performance penalty associated with evaluating such expressions and generally if you need to access an object repeatedly it is better to get direct object reference rather than refer to it through a complex expression. Thus

FOR OBJECT ww IN worksheet.Range("A14:F18")
   OBJECT font = ww.font
   font.colorindex = i++
   font.Bold = TRUE
NEXT OBJECT ww

FOR OBJECT ww IN worksheet.Range("A14:F18")
   ww.Font.colorindex = i++
   ww.Font.Bold = TRUE
NEXT OBJECT ww