Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 25/03/2016 23:00, Alex Tweedly wrote: > >> How about a Feature Exchange for adding arrays ? (i.e. not >> dictionaries, but actual arrays with numeric indices and linear >> access times) > > In LiveCode, we currently call these "proper lists". > > LiveCode arrays currently have O(log N) read and insertion complexity > in the general case (which is better than linear). > > If we were to add proper lists, we would probably use an > implementation with O(1) read and O(N) insertion complexity in the > general case. > > If you need proper lists, LiveCode Builder already provides them with > the "List" type.
Is there an estimate for when indexed arrays ("proper lists") may become available in LiveCode Script?
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