Mark > On 13 Oct 2015, at 01:32, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote: > > On 2015-10-12 18:41, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> That looks like Builder rather than Script, no? > > No - this is definitely a LiveCode Script library... It implements a > data-type on top of an LCS array very much like the LCB 'List' type. (Such > 'proper lists' - aka dense integer numerically-keyed arrays with index > starting at 1 - are something we want to add to LCS at some point).
I believe that it would be a very worthwhile addition. An implementation in the engine would be far, far superior and orders of magnitude faster than anything I can come up with in LiveCode Script. > Interestingly (although I've not read it in depth) it looks like the type is > designed with the idea that you can easily change what is considered to be > the 'first' index - i.e. move backward and forward through it. That is correct > This reminds me of a circular linked list in functionality. The list is not circular. I am used to such functionality from Rebol (and now Red) whose list processing is ,I believe, highly influenced by Lisp. Kind regards Peter _______________________________________________ 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
