Is 'Error Lookup' broken?

[Richard Gaskin]

Ali Lloyd wrote:

 > It's not actually correct that they were introduced in LC8 --
 > the properties have been there since at least 6.0.1 (
 > 
https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/release-6.0.1/engine/src/lextable.cpp#L1343)
 > and probably before.
 >
 > Previously the home stack would set the custom property of the error
 > stack on startup (using the engine properties), which to my mind is
 > a slightly bizarre state of affairs and I'm not sure why it was done
 > that way.

Prior to the error descriptions being added to the engine they had to be 
somewhere, and since the error dialog was the one place they were always 
needed putting them into a custom prop there made reasonable sense.

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