The encoding property

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Monte.  I noticed the IDE props (the ones beginning with "rev" I
think).

Will be interesting to see how things shape up after the parser rewrite.

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


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com
> wrote:

> On 27/08/2013, at 7:46 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's the list of entries in propertynames that have no matching entry
> in
> > the dictionary.  There's quite a few understandable omissions such as
> > "abbrev", "english","system"(why are they in the propertynames?).  Maybe
> I
> > should put this into a QCC report?
>
>
> The current implementation of the propertyNames is heavily integrated into
> the parser so I think what you are seeing is the result of using
> workarounds to get the desired syntax. I suspect that the engine treats
> abbrev as a property then looks ahead to find out what it's abbrev of...
> Given that script parsing is changing significantly in the near future I'd
> hazard a guess that this might get a cleanup.
>
> There's also quite a few IDE only properties in the list which should
> probably be documented separately rather than in the regular dictionary.
> However, given the engine itself is virtually undocumented it wouldn't
> surprise me it that never happens...
>
> Chers
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