noob question

[Anonymous]

why is it that when you assigning a position date to a property, you use [] but when you assign colors, you use ()

e.g. mybox.wirecolor=(colour 1 1 1) and mybox.pos =

surely both are an array of three parameters? Why mix up the notations and why use comas for one and not for the other? Am I missing something?

[Steve_Curley]

The parentheses are not required in the mybox.wirecolor statement because color is a constructor taking 3 (4 if you provide an alpha) values returning a single color value. There are occasions, however, where you will find that you need to enclose the whole color part of the statement in parentheses. Try entering

 print color 1 2 3 

into the listener, then try with parentheses around the color 1 2 3 part.
The brackets in the mybox.pos statement are required to force the 3 values to be treated as an array (actually a point3 value).
Note that the location of the parentheses and brackets are different (in the 2 statements).