Param Naming - Object by Reference Best Practices

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/31/17 4:06 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote:
> One does not expect this to be improperly evaluated
> 
> put "graphic portal-title-bkgnd" into pObject
> 
> What do you do? And why?

I suspect the engine is trying to do subtraction since it can't tell you 
are referring to a literal name. Try putting the name of the object in 
quotes, see if that helps:

put "graphic" && quote& "portal-title-bkgnd" & quote into pObject

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