Duplicate stack names

[Peter Haworth]

Yes, I experienced the chaos and was fortunately able to rise out of it!

I have checks in there now but I'm kinda surprised that violation of such a
basic principle isn't dealt with by the underlying code for create stack.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:21 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 7/15/12 4:43 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> I was under the impression that the IDE would not allow duplicate stack
>> names but I have succeeded in creating two substacks of the same main
>> stack
>> with the same name by issuing a create stack command in a script.  I'm
>> guessing this is because the IDE checks for this condition outside the
>> scope of the create stack command?  If so, I will have to do that check in
>> my script I guess.
>>
>
> That's right. And if you do have two stacks with the same name, chaos
> ensues.
>
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