Naming a sprite "mouse-pointer" hides it in the GO TO and TOUCHING? enumerated input menus

[nathan]

When a sprite is named mouse-pointer, it's impossible to use it with the TOUCHING? or GO TO primitives.

It may not be worth fixing this, though, because any fix would prevent programatic access to the actual mouse-pointer (i.e. GO TO (variable) where (variable) has the value mouse-pointer would do nothing unless there were a sprite called mouse-pointer).

However, programmatic access is questionable anyway as it doesn't work at all with non-English names.

[brianharvey]

Should we prevent calling a sprite that?

[nathan]

Probably.

[cycomachead]

Should we prevent calling a sprite that?

I would probably just give a "warning" but I think prevention is fine.

[bb010g]

I would probably just give a "warning" but I think prevention is fine.

Prevention would work well as this would really be the equivalent of a syntax error in a text-based language.