Stacks whose names start with "rev"

[Brian Milby]

Name lookups probably only happen in the development environment. My guess is that everything is stored/referenced using the ID.

I’m not sure how this could translate to LC in general though.

Thanks,
Brian
On Oct 2, 2018, 7:04 PM -0400, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
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