On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote: > the following doesn't work: > > <hansl> > bundle bc > bc.from = 2 > loop i=bc.from..3 > print i > endloop > </hansl> > > I'm not sure it's supposed to work, but at least it seems to contradict > this explanation from the manual (section 12.2): > > "The starting and ending values for the index can be given in numerical > form, by reference to predefined scalar variables, or as expressions that > evaluate to scalars." > > Or isn't 'bc.from' an "expression" in this sense? Yes, in principle it ought to be OK. But it's confusing the loop parser because the dot in "bc.from" is getting mixed up with the dots in the "from..to" formulation. The alternative, loop i=bc["from"]..3 works alright. I'll see about fixing this.