A Got-Ya

[Peter Haworth]

Confirmed here.  Although unlikely to happen, that's a bad bug. The
presence of "the" and "of <objectreference>" should make it clear that a
custom property is being referenced, not a variable.

Pete
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> ugh.  That's an ugly.  I'd file a feature request to have the
> parser/compiler catch those for you.  I am a big proponent of loose syntax,
> but if it's going to be loose enough that you can do THAT, then you either
> should get an error for misusing the token or it should be smart enough to
> not fail.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I just spent an 1.5 hours of "what the heck just happened". My fault but
> > just wanted to let others know.
> >
> > I have a custom stack prop named "pRegion". This worked as expected
> except
> > in one handler. It always returned empty. From either the handler or from
> > the message box while the handler was being debugged or from an answer
> > dialog. Click the stop button in the debugger, then from the message box
> > the
> > custom property is the value the inspector says. Breakpoint on the first
> > line of the mouseup handler and it's gone. Deleted all the code in the
> > handler and it's back even though I examined it before any code was run
> > from
> > the debugger both times.
> > Problem: I had a local of the same name by mistake. I was not even using
> > it.
> > I just deleted it and all was OK. This might be obvious to the more
> > seasoned
> > LiveCoder but to a beginner... not so much
> >
> > Just an FYI
> >
> > Ralph DiMola
> > IT Director
> > Evergreen Information Services
> > rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> >
> >
> >
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