Conflict between table column and object property

[capmikee]

Is this a bug?

[code]A test is a kind of thing.
A test has a number called the index.

Table of Executions
Index
a number
with 100 blank rows

When play begins:
sort the Table of Executions in index order;

There is a room.[/code]

Problem. You wrote ‘sort the Table of Executions in index order’ , which I tried to match against several possible phrase definitions. None of them worked.
I was trying to match one of these phrases:

1. sort (table of executions - table name) in (index - table column) order
2. sort (table of executions - list of objects) in (index - property) order
3. sort (table of executions in index order - list of values)
   This was what I found out:

Table of Executions = a table name
index = a numbers valued property
Table of Executions in index order = something unrecognised

Clearly, phrase #1 should have matched, but it didn’t. Perhaps phrase #2 is causing a conflict, but I don’t really understand what that syntax is supposed to achieve. Can someone explain this?

Thanks.

[Jim_Aikin]

Looks to me like “index” is a reserved word. Change it to “indexo” and the game compiles.

[capmikee]

The example works if you change either the property or the table column to something else. But it’s fine for either one of them to be “index.”

[Ron_Newcomb]

Yeah, that’s a bug. If the property & column have the same name the problem still appears, so it’s not just an issue with the word “index”. And the to-phrases really should have figured that situation out. Please report it.

[capmikee]

Reported!

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