Is this sort of thing a bug?

[David Bovill]

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> 2009/9/17 Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>
> Given this, you should be able to simply refer to the long name of the
> substack without needing to explicitly include its mainstack:
>

Yes - the point is that the following give a result that is not only
unexpected but plain wrong (go on - try it and see):


> put the name of stack "revLibrary" into stackObject
> put the long name of stack "revSaving" of stackObject = the long name of
> stack "revLibrary"  -- believe it or not this is true!
>

In my MVC libraries handlers frequently pass around the objects they acts
on. So early on I put object references into a variable:

put the long id of the target into targetObject

and then pass the variable "targetObject" around. As such a handler that get
passed a reference to a stack in a variable should be confident that it does
what is expected. In my case it did not and added an object to the main
stack and not the substack because of the above bug.

As a passionate advocate for the language and its robustness - maybe a few a
votes here <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8277> would
get this annoyance fixed :)

2009/9/17 Robert Maniquant <rman at free.fr>

>
> COuld you precise which version 3.5 or 4 ? I recall having had some strange
> behaviors related to stack name in variables, I think I took another route,
> but that could explain it!!
>

Pretty sure it will be in all versions.