delete vs empty variables

Robert Brenstein rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Fri Mar 12 17:33:43 EST 2004


>On Friday, March 12, 2004, at 01:21 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>
>>Except for one warning: variables that are arrays are omitted by 
>>those functions.
>>
>>Or was this fixed lately? Admitedly, I haven't checked the most 
>>recent release. It was not considered a bug as Scott did it this 
>>way by design.
>
>on mouseUp
>   put "a" into x
>   put "locals: " & the localnames & LF
>   put "a" into x[1]
>   put "locals: " & the localnames & LF after message
>end mouseUp
>
>==>
>
>locals:
>x
>
>locals:
>x
>
>If this actually tests what you are talking about, then maybe it has 
>been changed.
>
>I prefer to see arrays as values (in Transcript) and not a special 
>kind of variable.  That opens the doors to nice things.
>
>I thought maybe I had discovered a faster "is an array" test.  Oh, well.
>
>Dar Scott
>

Indeed. I just checked myself and it works now. So, forget my warning :)

Robert


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