a closed stack vs an invisible stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Doug Lerner wrote:

> I notice that even if a stack is closed, I can obtain custom properties from
> it, such as:
> 
> put the loginName of stack "loginForm"
> 
> I thought that the stack had to be "open but invisible" to access
> information about the stack.

Not needed:  you can access data in any stack file without opening it.  The
stack file will be read into memory in order to access it, but will not be
officially opened.

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