: reference to a few "special" values, such as "id" and "score". Neither : of them are technically "stored" fields either, but afaik you dont need : to use "field(id), field(score)" for those. Can you honestly say that : is consistent?
Nope. I wasn't defending the quirks of the API, or trying give the impression that I thought it was consistent. My goal was simply to try and explain what the example Alan gave you was actually doing, and why/how it worked -- so that you weren't left with the string "fl=field(eff_field_name)" as some magical, inexplicable, black-box. -Hoss
