Stacks whose names start with "rev"

[Richard Gaskin]

Geoff Canyon wrote:
> The fact that there is an underlying permanent unique id for everything,
> completely abstracted from the user. So you can change the name of a
> column, or table, or layout, one time, in the database definition, and all
> references to that object in scripts, other layouts, etc. will
> automatically update -- or really, peeking behind the curtain, I'm guessing
> they don't have to update at all because they all reference the permanent
> unique id, and only render it into the name you know it by when they render
> themselves for you to edit them.
> 
> So in LiveCode terms, imagine if you could rename a card, and any script
> that referenced that card, or controls on it, wouldn't break, but just
> automatically reflect the new name. Or rename a control, or a stack.

Ah, thanks.  I wonder how the name lookup for every element in the 
system affects performance.

It sounds like in this regard LC is no worse off than MySQL, SQLite, and 
other systems where names are used directly.

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