Keys of a custom property array

[Peter Haworth]

I've run into other circumstances where using parens makes an expression
yield the correct results.  I can't think of them off the top of my head
but the resukt has been that I probably use an overabundance of parens in
my code so I don't have to worry about things working correctly.  That's
how I stumled on the solution to this - just force of habit.

Actually, as a bonus, I think parens often make the code more readable too.

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


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 3/3/13 6:25 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>
>  I am a big fan of forced evaluation.
>>
>> So why doesn't:
>>
>>
>> do "get the keys of the testArray of me"
>>
>> or
>>
>> do "get the keys of" &&  the testArray of me
>>
>> work?
>>
>
> It works if you add the parentheses:
>
>   do "get the keys of (the testArray of me)"
>
> But it's weird. The reason I wrote to the list is because this didn't work
> either:
>
>  put keys(the cArray of me)
>
> which does have the parens. So it never occured to me to use:
>
>  the keys of (the cArray of me)
>
> even though in my mind, that's identical.
>
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