valueDiff for arrays?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-08-04 20:37, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> On 08/04/2018 11:19 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> 
>> Basically these lower-level platform specific operations can be used 
>> to create a mobile handler script library, which would be a 
>> script-library in the open source repository - which can contain the 
>> cross-platform 'mobile' implementations.
>> 
>> It makes it visible, accessible and something which is much easier for 
>> people to contribute to - or copy, rename and modify as they need to 
>> for their specific project.
> 
> Got it. And yes, that speaks directly to my point, so we're on the
> same page. Whew! Email is sometimes not the easiest way to
> communicate, even when both sides are speaking the (more or less) same
> language.

Heh - indeed - the thought in my mind was always that it would be a 
common script-library - however, looking back I never actually 
articulated that.

By the way @Richard - my suggestion for 'valueDiff' (or whatever variant 
comes out of any discussion) was that after some fettling over the 
details - such things like that could, too, become part of a common 
'utility' script library in the engine repository (or a set of utility 
libraries, after all not every project needs everything).

Indeed, internally we have already been building such a thing (for 
various reasons - although mainly because I got bored hand-coding the 
same lines of code again and again - which I'm sure we all do!) - its 
not ready for public release yet, but we fully intend to do so when 
we've dotted a few i's and crossed a few t's. (We need to support it 
after all if it is the main repository - so I want to make sure it is in 
a supportable state when it debuts).

One of the most useful things it has are LiveCode implementations of the 
Python path functions - and, oh my god, do they make any code which 
manipulates files soooo much easier.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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