scripts could be placed in, and run from, any text container, including string variables, or imported from other stacks using the start using command. A script could even be user-provided text typed into an on-screen text field. Arbitrary text could be executed using the do command, in a manner similar to Dynamic SQL.

Referring to containers

A key concept in HyperTalk was the way it referred to containers through a navigational system based on the visual hierarchy of the stack. Every container in the

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