On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > Er… why if you know the name wouldn’t you type it unquoted? Are you really > suggesting to put any expression there? The property/function ambiguity > with `the` will make our heads explode! > If I have a variable "propertyZ", then under current code I *cannot* use set the propertyZ of theThing to 7 to affect the custom property named propertyZ. Allowing quotes would solve this. In my case, I hit this in a "metaprocedure" that runs in development to enforce consistency, find variable fields, and whathaveyou, and separately came to the same "natural" name for both a variable and a customproperty, leading to significant debugging until I figured out why it wasn't working. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
