valueDiff for arrays?

[Mark Wieder]

On 08/05/2018 02:48 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:
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>> On 6 Aug 2018, at 7:07 am, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> filter X by keeping the lines not matching pattern "regex"
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> My point was this statement can be written as both:
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> filter X by keeping the lines not matching pattern “regex"
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> and
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> filter X by discarding the lines matching pattern "regex"
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> So it would perhaps be a good idea to only allow `matching` rather than `not matching`

True, but syntacticly I like the idea of being able to place "not" in 
front of any boolean without having to remember where it's legal and 
where it's not. I also think it's harder on the engine (this off the top 
of my head without looking at the code <g>) to specify where "not" is legal.

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