Arrays: new and old keys, i and, man am I annoyed

[Mark Schonewille]

John,

The power of xTalk is exactly the flexibility that annoys you so much.  
If you send me the number of your bug report, I'll post a comment  
requesting the bug be *not* fixed.

Things have been like this for two decades and I don't think it should  
suddenly change now. As Malte has noted, setting the explicitvariables  
to true may take away your annoyance.

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On 15 sep 2008, at 07:49, John Vokey wrote:

> To quote myself (to which nobody responded):
>
> To wit:
>
> on test
>  put 5 into array[fred]
>  put array[fred]
>  wait 2secs --wait for it
>  put 2 into fred
>  put array[fred]
> end test
>
> I have asked for ages (back when Metacard was but a pup) that array  
> literals require quotes (the same discontinuity exists for  
> properties---try it, please), and nothing.  But really,  
> array["fred"] and array[fred] are really two different entities,  
> no?  Even Rev treats them so, as long as fred, the variable (or fred  
> the property) has been declared to have value.  This inconsistency  
> is more than a little annoying; it is just stupid.
>
> --
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html>
>
> -Dr. John R. Vokey