Manual on Verb Qualifiers

[tajmone]

Ciao @thoni56,

in the Alan Manual, §3.11. VERBs » Controlling Execution with Qualifiers, it says:

So in short (with base class definitions of the outermost location being the outermost and the instance bound to the last syntax parameter the innermost):

• From the outside in, find any Before or Only definitions and execute them (stop if Only found).
• From the inside out, execute any definitions not already executed and not declared with the After qualifier.
• Execute the remaining verb definitions (those with an After qualifier) from the outside in.

This part of the Manual has always confused me and seems wrong. If you look at the text that precedes the above statement, just a couple of paragraphs before:

First, starting at the "innermost" according to the table above, the verb in the last parameter (if any) is investigated and, if any of its (inherited) verb bodies have the Before or Only qualifier it is executed. If the qualifier was Only then execution is also aborted at this stage and no more verb definitions are examined, otherwise the other parameters are examined in the same way.

... it seems to contradict the previous "in short" list, and that in the above list "outside in" and "indise out" should be swapped in all three list items.

Could please check that section and confirm if the above (and the text preceeding it) are correct.

Thanks