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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 Mark Wieder
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