Changing array key text

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jun 24 23:55:43 EDT 2019


I love when you guys talk geek to me. <bats eyes > "Tell me more about my 
arrays."

https://youtu.be/dEaFFZpfxLU

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On June 24, 2019 9:44:55 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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