this script

Fred = object( name="Fred", spouse="wilma", friends=["barney"] );

Wilma = object( name="Wilma", spouse=Fred, friends=["Betty"] );

Fred2 = object( Fred, friends=["barney",Wilma]);

echo(Fred2 =Fred2, "\n");

echo( fps = Fred2.spouse, "\n", Fred2.friends, "\n" );

ECHO: Fred2 = ["barney", { name = "Wilma"; spouse = { name = "Fred"; spouse = "wilma"; friends = { name = "Fred"; spouse = "wilma"; friends = ["barney"]; }; friends = ["Betty"]; }]; }

Fred2 is looking like a vector starting with “[“

expanding to show structure:

["barney",

{ name = "Wilma";

  spouse = { 

    name = "Fred"; 

    spouse = "wilma"; 

    friends = { 

      name = "Fred";

      spouse = "wilma";

      friends = \["barney"\];

      };

    friends = \["Betty"\];

    }

 \];

}

this looks wrong

is my script doing something wrong

I'm pretty sure that the conversion to a string is somehow loused up.

Here's a pretty minimal demonstration.

Wilma = object(
    spouse=object()
);
echo( Wilma=Wilma);
 
Betty = object(
    friends=[Wilma]
);
echo( Betty  = Betty );

yields

ECHO: Wilma = { spouse = { }; }
ECHO: Betty = [{ spouse = { friends = { }; }]; }

It looks like the brackets from the friends member somehow end up in the
wrong places.

I've filed Bad output converting object to string #6048
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/6048.

Thanks Jordan

BTW .. i confirmed it is a printing problem by forming a vector of name=value pairs from my test object

it printed out correctly