>Not a bug! It's by design as I recall and I also recall that it was always a good idea to set property values to a system variable or constant at Init anyway.
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>Having said that I must take exception at Al's characterization of the docs. Some of us took the docs seriously but the prevailing sentiment was that doc issues weren't "real" technical issues and we weren't given the time to address them. I took 'em quite seriously and spent hundreds of weekend and off-hours reviewing and correcting what I could. Again, though, the defect metrics didn't include doc bugs so it had to be a labor of love because for dang sure you weren't going to be recognized for the effort.

Not quite sure what "characterization" you're talking about. I said IMO the entire issue of this thread is really one of lack of documentation of this particular behaviour. I wasn't disparaging the quality of the docs in general, I think they're actually fairly good and complete.

If you spent unpaid/uncredited time making them better, kudos to you, John.