>>>Call it macro idiosyncrasy
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>>Call it ease of debugging. You can put a breakpoint after the TRY and see whether loGrid is the object you thought it would be.
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>>I'd actually rather
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>>loGrid=getPem(this.parent, "lcGridName")
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>>because that doesn't run the expression evaluator at all (as eval() must do), it queries the object directly.
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>Right you are. I just was unable to remember getpem syntax before, but now I think I will.

Just like most of us here, I also need a this.brain.memory.refresh() every once in a while :)