Mark Waddingham wrote:
> On 2016-11-01 19:12, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> You're absolutely right. When in doubt I check the
>> Winkler-Kamins-DeVoto reference, and indeed they verify that all name
>> queries will return a value, even when the property itself is empty.
>> When using "the short name" on an unnamed object, WKD says it should
>> return the ID form, as LC currently does.
>
> I must confess I struggle to find any reasonable logic behind the
> current behavior of 'the short name' when the actual name of the
> object is empty.
At least I'm in good company. Despite decades of using this family of
languages, it just seemed to logical that querying a property would
deliver its actual value that I was momentarily certain that was the case.
> Indeed, I'd suggest that it is actually a bug (well,
> I guess 'anomaly' by our current definition).
> As 'the short name' is not meant to return a control reference, it is
> slightly unsettling that it does return a control reference in one
> case.
Agreed, and it was encouraging to see this request confirmed, for the
Inspector to display only the actual value of the object's name (which
may be empty):
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17432
I'll see if I can get some time to submit a pull request for that.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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