JS (CS4) Add arrowhead to stroke

Yes, I thought this would be easy for me… minus a few hairs and now I'm here.
This:
myHorizontalArrow.rightLineEnd.Triangle;
or
myHorizontalArrow.rightLineEnd.arrowHead.Triangle;
does not work.
OMV lists:
ArrowHead.TRIANGLE_ARROW_HEAD
Insight is greatly appreciated as to where I'm going wrong.
Thanks,
John

InDesign accepts the form:
triangleArrowHead
as well. But this transformation does not work across the whole of the Creative Suite and not within the base JS features.
For example,
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
cannot be written:
Number.negativeInfinity
This returns the value undefined.
Dave

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