Explanation of seemingly very odd symbol syntax crash.

flowstate said:

If "symbol" referred to a method, you would have a way of calling it, but since it refers to an enum, I don't think you can "dereference" it in the way you're trying to.

Hmm.

I mean... the practical evidence is in your favour that I can't refer to a module's constant in that way, but... you can with basically everything else... I've expanded my test to include enum, property and...

    var raw, symbol, obj;

    System.println("");
    System.println("START TEST STRINGS");
    raw = Rez.Strings.AppName;
    obj = Rez.Strings;
    symbol = :AppName;
    if(obj has symbol) {
        System.println("has symbol "+symbol);
        System.println("get "+Rez.Strings[symbol]+" should equal "+raw);
    }


    System.println("");
    System.println("START TEST THIS METHOD");
    raw = self.onLayout;
    obj = self;
    symbol = :onLayout;
    if(obj has symbol) {
        System.println("has symbol "+symbol);
        System.println("get "+self[symbol]+" should equal "+raw);
    }

    System.println("");
    System.println("START TEST THIS PROPERTY");
    raw = self.aValue;
    obj = self;
    symbol = :aValue;
    if(obj has symbol) {
        System.println("has symbol "+symbol);
        System.println("get "+self[symbol]+" should equal "+raw);
    }

    System.println("");
    System.println("START TEST THIS ENUM");
    raw = self.AN_ENUM;
    obj = self;
    symbol = :AN_ENUM;
    if(obj has symbol) {
        System.println("has symbol "+symbol);
        System.println("get "+self[symbol]+" should equal "+raw);
    }


    System.println("");
    System.println("START TEST STATIC VAR");
    raw = TestHr_F3View.staticBob;
    obj = TestHr_F3View;
    symbol = :staticBob;
    if(obj has symbol) {
        System.println("has symbol "+symbol);
        System.println("get "+self[symbol]+" should equal "+raw);
    }

    System.println("");
    System.println("START TEST SENSOR");
    raw = Toybox.Sensor.SENSOR_HEARTRATE;
    obj = Toybox.Sensor;
    symbol = :SENSOR_HEARTRATE;
    if(obj has symbol) {
        System.println("has symbol "+symbol);
        System.println("get "+Toybox.Sensor[symbol]+" should equal "+raw);
    }

Gets...

START TEST STRINGS
has symbol symbol (25)
get 1550 should equal 1550

START TEST THIS METHOD
has symbol symbol (8389122)
get method should equal method

START TEST THIS PROPERTY
has symbol symbol (42)
get something should equal something

START TEST THIS ENUM
has symbol symbol (41)
get 0 should equal 0

START TEST STATIC VAR
has symbol symbol (56)
get bob should equal bob

START TEST SENSOR
has symbol symbol (8388954)

Error: Unhandled Exception
Exception: UnexpectedTypeException: Expected Object/Array/Dictionary/ByteArray, given Primitive Module
Stack: