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[Alex Tweedly]

On 29/06/2017 17:17, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> The thing about passing in as an array is.. its just a different form of
> name value pairs, so it sidesteps the whole issue.
> alue pairs.

Not quite - there's a crucial difference.

Using an array for name/value pairs, you can pass in an array as an 
actual parameter.

You can't do that with strings for the name/value pairs.

    put gAData into tA["row"]
    put 100 into tA["size"]
    DoSomething 12, 4, tA

but you can't do
    DoSomething 12, 4, "size=100", "row=" & gAData
because the array gAData can't be automatically converted to/from a 
string to pass it.

-- Alex.