Nested array comparisons

[Mark Schonewille]

Dick,

As you can conclude from

"To compare two arrays, simply use the = operator directly on them 
rather than encoding them first."

the documenation, particularly with regard to arrays, is not always correct.

Moreover, I would expect that computers return the same value when doing 
two equal calculations in the same way under equal circumstances.


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On 3/24/2013 21:25, Dick Kriesel wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:
>
>> I know the list of keys is not random but there's no guarantee on the order as far as I know and I'd want to do a significant amount of testing before I assume two arrays created under different circumstances might return the keys in the same order.
>
> The dictionary entry for arrayEncode says two equal arrays may have different array encodings:
>
> "Note: Arrays in LiveCode are un-ordered. This means in particular that encoding two arrays will not necessarily produce the same result, even if the arrays had the same elements. To compare two arrays, simply use the = operator directly on them rather than encoding them first."
>
> -- Dick