Folks, I’ve been following this discussion, barely. I don’t use merge, but when I need to form a command from several variables, I create the command as a text string and use do to execute it.
So, when I look it up in the dictionary, I see a fairly simplistic description with nothing resembling the code being discussed in this thread. So I’m thinking: “What’s with the square brackets?” I haven’t looked at the link that Kee posted, (I’m having breakfast at the beach) but would like to make a request for the dictionary entry to be expanded. Best, Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jan 18, 2019, at 10:33 AM, kee nethery via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I’m confused. Can someone explain why merge function exists when the put > function works just as well? > > merge( [[ 1 + 2 ]] = 3) > vs > put 1 + 2 && “= 3” > > What is it that merge can do that a put cannot do? Just asking because I > don’t want LiveCode to end up like Perl where there are so many completely > different ways to do the exact same thing that one person’s perl code can be > unreadable to another equally talented Perl coder. > > Kee > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
