Changing array key text

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Mon Jun 24 22:43:17 EDT 2019


On 6/24/19 7:18 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
> My guess is that it has to do with the copy on write property of arrays.  If you used your method it may force an actual duplication.  The existing method just passes a pointer effectively.  I could be totally wrong though.

Dunno. Possibly. But passing a pointer and deleting the referenced 
object seems dangerous without a lot of overhead of reference counting 
and deferred deletion.

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