Q on Accessing multi-dimension arrays.

[Richard Gaskin]

Dick Kriesel to the rescue again!  Thanks for that background. 
Comforting to know it's not merely an anomaly, but a well-considered 
design decision.

It's such a cool thing to be able to do.  It will change many algos here...

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems

Dick Kriesel wrote:
>> On Apr 26, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> tPath can also be thought of as a (proper) list which makes a little more
>> sense. Mark W would need to answer the why.
> 
> The following excerpts provide a quote from Mark W:
> 
>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Pete wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm wondering how you found about about this key values array feature?  I
>>> can't find any mention of it in the dictionary or the reference manual and
>>> it sure seems like something that should be known!
>> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Dick Kriesel <dick.kriesel at mail.com <mailto:dick.kriesel at mail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I found it while looking through bug reports for arrays, in <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7166 <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7166>> dated 2008-11-28.  So, thanks be to Mark Waddingham and David Bovill for that.
>> 
>> For convenience, here's Mark's reply to David:
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>> 
>> This is on the list to include for the next version. In that version with:
>>  put tValue into tArray[tKey]
>> (indeed anywhere you can currently do tArray[tKey])
>> 
>> The meaning of 'tKey' will be extended:
>>  1) If it is a string then it is as it is now
>>  2) If it is a numerically keyed array starting at 1, then it will mean:
>>       put tValue into tArray[tKey[1]][tKey[2]]...[tKey[n]]
>>     where <n> is the number of elements in tKey
>>  3) Otherwise it is an error.
>> 
>> This will allow you to construct an array containing the path to the key you
>> want to modify/fetch/delete dynamically.
>> 
>> I agree, the feature's worth adding into the dictionary and manual.
>> 
>> -- Dick