[Tip] Propeties & sets & List of 'reserved words' and gotchas

[J. Landman Gay]

Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>>
>> Regardless of the above, you couldn't say a truer thing. Reserved  
>> words shouldn't be used for variable names.
> 
> 
> Jacque,
> 
> I'm going to respectfully disagree on this one in that I haven't  found 
> any problems with using reserved words as keys of custom  property 
> sets.  Here is why -

It's okay, I agree there isn't any problem with your approach. I stand 
by the generic statement though, because so much of my business is 
converting HyperCard stacks to Revolution and I constantly run into 
things like this:

   put fld "name" into name
   put fld "date" into date

which throws compiler errors all over the place. So as a general rule I 
always say that avoiding reserved words as variable names is just a 
generally good idea.

You are just one of those people who know enough that they can break the 
rules. ;)

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