Odd Empty behavior

[William Prothero]

Folks:
LC 6.6.0, OSX 10.9.3
I have the following script:

   put "XX" into test["data"]["a1"]
   if test["data"] is empty then
      answer "It is empty"
   else
      answer "Not empty"
   end if

I would think that if there was some value in test[“data”], it would return “Not empty”. However, it returns empty. I think this is a very unexpected behavior because I think of the “a1” value of test as a subarray, especially since test[“a1”] doesn’t have the set value. In fact, test[“data”] is not empty. It contains the subarray [“a1”].

Is this a bug or just a livecode oddity?

Thanks,
Bill