Re: Attributes and :include

Tim Hemel wrote:

> I am trying to debug an aap file and while doing that, I run into
> some strange behaviour, which is not the actual problem, but might
> be related.

[...]

> Items = a { myattr=done }
> 	b { myattr=notdone }
> 	c
> 
> :attr { all = mine } $Items

[...]

> Now, I comment out the :attr command in the parent file, and we get an
> unexpected result:
[...]
> Hey! where did all my attributes go?


When you assign a string to a variable that is all that happens.  Thus
$Items is the list of items with attributes as you specify, but it's not
stored anywhere else.

When you use ":attr" to add attributes to an item, the attributes need
to be stored somewhere.  $Items remains unchanged.  Therefore nodes are
created for all the items and the attributes stored with them.

When you leave out the ":attr" command the nodes are not created and
get_attr() doesn't find the items.

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