Kurt; Well if the bots are using ChucK that would be awesome. Yes, much better than -say- imitation watches and images of people without any clothes on or suggestions to buy pills without first consulting a physician. Maybe they will start Bork (Bot orchestra).
The manual kind of glosses over static and doesn't really get into the tricky stuff like static non-primitives etc. This may be because some of ChucK's behavior in this department is slated to change at some point.
I think you are spot on. I wish it had been in the manual from the beginning because it's been like this for ages and leads to a lot of questions. By now it would have been better to just document how it is now and change the docs when this is finally cleaned up. Yours, Kas.