Delete the first entry of an array.

[Ali Lloyd]

> True - but sadly there's no effective way to filter those 523 entries to
> see only the ones that are relevant to a List type.

One way to do this is to click the 'lists' filter in the tags section.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:33 PM Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 27/03/2016 10:42, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> > On 26/03/2016 23:40, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> >> I haven't found (can't find) a spec for LCB, so I'm not sure exactly
> >> what "proper lists" are - but I think maybe not quite what I meant.
> >
> > There's a spec in the "Guides" tab of the LC8 dictionary -- look for
> > "LiveCode Builder Language Reference".
> I see that, but the ONLY mention it makes of lists are:
>   - it is one of the Types
>   - it holds a "sequence of values"
>   - what a ListExpression is.
>
> > There's also a whole LCB dictionary section in the "Dictionary" tab
> > that describes all the syntax relating to working with Lists.
> True - but sadly there's no effective way to filter those 523 entries to
> see only the ones that are relevant to a List type.
> >
> >> I was thinking of "proper arrays" :-) i.e. real, old-fashioned indexed
> >> arrays - see Algol, Fortran, etc.
> >>
> >> So we would have
> >> read access in constant time
> >> write access in constant time
> >> insertion complexity - there is no such thing as insertion :-)
> >
> > Yes.  We're talking about the same thing.  The LCB "List" datatype is
> > this datastructure.
> >
> I suspect we're not quite talking about the same thing - I think 'proper
> lists' are something more powerful than I was picturing, but can do
> everything I am looking for - and a whole lot more. If I simply ignore
> all that "more", then they do what I am hoping for.
>
> Many thanks for you patience explaining this.
> I'll go start playing with LCB and try to ask harder questions :-)
>
> Thanks
> -- Alex.
>
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