accessing nil variant properties

["Dr.Georg Christmann" <georg_christmann at yahoo dot de>]

Hi all,

Sorry if this has already been discussed.

Regarding variants i came across  the following behaviour that I 
believe is odd:
in an empty project I drag three pushbuttons.

pushbutton1.Action:
        dim v as Variant
        msgBox v.StringValue

pushbutton2.Action:
        dim v as Variant
        v=nil
        msgBox v.StringValue

pushbutton3.Action:
        dim v as Variant
        v="a"
        msgBox v.StringValue

In case 3 I get a msgBox showing an "a", as expected.
In case 1 and 2 I would have expected a nil object exception, instead I 
get an "empty" msgBox. Even the debugger says v is nil in case 1 and 2.
Is this intended behaviour?
If not: could this be related to bugreports "jwzbbxgp" or "wgfrzrru" ?

Thx.

Georg

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