Is this a bug?

[Ken Ray]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:23:16 -0800, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Chipp-
> 
> Saturday, January 20, 2007, 6:57:21 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> 'avoid time wasting confusion', then why even allow controls or 
>> objects with
>> the same name?
> 
> Yep - this has bothered me for a long time, too. I'd certainly support
> a referendum to disallow objects with the same name, but I'm afraid it
> would break backward compatibility. VB supports object instancing in
> the form of group "America"[2], but I don't care much for the syntax.

Maybe if there was an "instance" property of an object, so you could do:

  put the number of instances of group "America"
  put 10 into field 1 of instance 1 of group "America"
  put the long id of instance 2 of group "America" into tID

(etc.)

Just a thought...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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