On Aug 2, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> Just about any expression causes an error, eg:
>>
>> set the ("abc" & "def") of button "xyz" to 10
>
> String literals are also expressions, which is what threw me off.
>
> What we have here seems like a case where the engine isn't doing a proper
> up-front evaluation of the stuff between parens, which I'd consider a bug.
Interesting situation. The dictionary says what goes after the word "the" is
the name of the cprop. I'm not sure if a value (the result of evaluating an
expression) qualifies as a "name". If evaluation doesn't occur there, why can a
bare variable be used successfully? Its inconsistent.
I think whats needed is an enhancement request to evaluate an expression there.
Not knowing anything about the engine internals, I simply am guessing it
shouldn't be too difficult. <grin>
Maybe the messy syntax of an unquoted literal being a legal literal if its not
a variable name (except in strict compilation mode) is handled in a different
part of the engine.
Yet another reason to use strict compilation mode. Amen.
.Jerry
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