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[Alex Tweedly]

No, what I meant was Richard's fourth method, described in

>
> More with-the-grain would be this fourth option, passing in an array 
> as we see with some existing LC commands and functions, but that 
> requires a LOT more typing:
>
>   put "my chart" into tA["name"]
>   put 100 into tA["width"]
>   put "This is a chart" into tA["label"]
>   DoSomething tA
As I said in the follow-up email (with changed subject line), I think 
that works perfectly, except it is rather verbose.

-- Alex.


On 29/06/2017 17:00, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "pass by parameters" but I pass arrays by parameters all the time. If you mean:
>
> function getSomeInfo @aMyArray
>     -- do some stuff
>     return true
> end getSomeInfo
>
> That works fine.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Jun 28, 2017, at 15:14 , Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> He also mention a fourth method - using arrays - which he describes as "more with the grain" which is more appealing, since it solves all the above problems except the limitation on not using 'pass-by-reference' parameters. But I'll split that off to a separate response, with a changed subject/thread header.
>>
>> -- Alex.
>
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