dot operator behavior question

FYI, I think (and my testing shows) there IS a way to handle this without eval. Use the alternate AssociativeArray syntax (square brackets).

function testclass() as object
        this = {
                foo: "bar"
                func: function() as boolean
                        print "in method, foo is "; m.foo
                        for each attr in m
                                print "  found "+attr+" in m"
                        end for
                end function
        }
        return this
end function

sub main()
        c=testclass()
        c.func()
        c["func"]()
end sub

You get this output, which implies c.func() and c["func"]() result in the same behavior.

in method, foo is bar
  found func in m
  found foo in m
in method, foo is bar
  found func in m
  found foo in m

That seems to imply it's not really the dot operator, but the associative array existence that sets m. I don't know whether this was changed since this was mentioned here, just noting how I see it working currently.