Element as @ parameter (was Re: Cubist's first bug report)

[dsc at swcp.com]

I tried to make LiveCode crash fiddling with side-effects using this.  So far, I have not been able to.  As most of us have come to realize; there are some very smart people in Scotland.  

This is a very handy feature.  I usually use a functional style (using lots of simple, pure functions) but sometimes I want to maintain mutable data.  This is very handy.  I can have an array of queues!  

I am a little embarrassed that I didn't notice when this came out.  

Dar
darzLab

> On Jun 6, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
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>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
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>> This is because we changed the way that array subscripting operations work then they are used as a container (i.e. read/write) so that the 'path' to the element is only evaluated once. A side-effect of this was that we were able to implement the ability for array elements to be able to passed by-ref (to @ parameters) which they previously could not.
> 
> Yay!
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