valueDiff for arrays?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-08-04 21:20, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> On 8/4/18 12:41 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>> Can you immediately see the error?
> 
> Who, me? LOL. Well, I did find the line that was different. Brian and
> others who can read this stuff did better. But I did get the gist of
> your post and feel sufficiently smug now.

Well you can share your smugness with all Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, 
BASIC variants, and pretty much every other programmer who has chosen a 
high-level language (in terms of ones which takes away the need to think 
about memory management) as their main tool - at least in this regard. 
(Here by 'high-level' I mean one which abstracts away memory management 
and pointer manipulation entirely from your normal concerns).

However, I'd like to think that LiveCode actually sits in a slightly 
better class... It does not rely on a 'garbage collector' - all memory 
management is explicit - its just the engine does all the explicit work 
for you. It manages high-level safety without resorting to what is 
essentially a 'panic' solution to solving the problem (which actually 
has profound and rather unpleasant side-effects and edge cases in all 
kinds of ways most programmers who are used to relying on one don't even 
realize - but find out pretty quickly about then their fail 
catastrophically) ;)

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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