[Webmacro-devel] PropertyOperatorCache - rewrite needed

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a solution to this longstanding binary operator set bug 
in WM.

It is painfully difficult to modify PropertyOperatorCache. It's a very 
important part of WM and it is bordering on unmaintainable due to the 
complex interactions and recursion that occurs to attempt to locate direct 
or binary accessors.

I really think this needs to be reshaped for 2.0 - and I'd like to be able 
to do it myself (right now, because I really need this bug fixed) but I 
just don't have the in-depth knowledge of WM to get this right.

For example, I discovered (partly to my horror) that WM supports 
"PropertyMethod" - a way of getting a property NAME from a function:

#set $propnameProvider.SomeProp = "marc"
#set $var = $propnameProvider.get("SomeProp").SomeOtherProp

This looks somewhat bizarre and horrendous to me. Does -anybody-actually 
use it?

Marc

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