If this is a feature, it's a nasty one.

[Victor Eijkhout]

>Yes it's a feature and it's a very powerful one

Ok, I'll accept that.

But the man page is wrong: it says (and I still don't know how to 
cut/paste from the documentation; is that possible?) "The 
<i>property</i> is a built-in property name or a custom property 
name."

That should be "is a property name, or a variable or parameter having 
a property name as value".

Agree?

Or does this follow from some statement in the manual that I haven't found yet?
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