Paul McNett wrote: > Ed Leafe wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:38 PM, daryl warder wrote: >> >>> I was wondering if this is a bug or is the word 'Name' a reserved >>> word in Dabo ? >> Well, we haven't formally defined 'reserved words' in Dabo, but yes, >> 'Name' has a specific meaning in Dabo. Every UI object has a Name >> property that must be unique among its siblings. Looking at the code >> in question, the presence of 'Name' is definitely the problem. >> >> I suppose I should add a wiki page containing a list of reserved >> words for Dabo. Thanks for the feedback! > > IMO, we should fix the problem instead. The reserved words are > effectively every single property or method in the bizobj. Our code > should first try to get the value from the record, and only if the field > isn't found should we try to resolve a property or method reference. > > I use 'name' as a field name all the time, but never got hung up on this > because of case-sensitivity. >
I am curious as to why it even collides. I would expect to see an attribute called .FieldName, and in this case its value is 'name' or 'Name'. Why do we end up with .foo being created if the fieldname is 'foo' ? Carl K _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev
