Arrays in Rev (long)

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Jul 11 19:12:30 EDT 2004


On Jul 11, 2004, at 3:31 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> There are some things to watch for in array values.  Array elements 
> cannot (yet!) be arrays.  The result of arithmetic retains full 
> precision when saved as an element (numberFormat is not applied at 
> saving) and is not coerced to a string.  When converted to a string 
> later, numberFormat at that time is used.

Oh.  There is one very positive thing.  The best I can tell, you can 
put any string into an array element, including binary (arbitrary byte) 
values such as images.  (The best I can tell, only keys cannot take 
arbitrary binary data.)

Dar Scott



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