[Gambas-user] Question

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Moviga Technologies wrote:
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> Property Read {Map} As Map 
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> What are the brackets doing? 

They tell the compiler to treat the bracketed string as an identifier. This
is documented here[0]. Since there apparently is a class named "Map" already,
it might cause trouble for the parser if you call a totally unrelated symbol
also "Map". The brackets clarify the situation, although I think they're not
needed in property declarations.

As [0] indicates, using reserved keywords of the language as identifiers
(as opposed to using already declared identifiers for different symbols) is
another place where brackets must be used.

Regards,
Tobi

[0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/resident

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