On 2018-08-04 21:20, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
On 8/4/18 12:41 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
Can you immediately see the error?
Who, me? LOL. Well, I did find the line that was different. Brian and
others who can read this stuff did better. But I did get the gist of
your post and feel sufficiently smug now.
Well you can share your smugness with all Python, JavaScript, Java, C#,
BASIC variants, and pretty much every other programmer who has chosen a
high-level language (in terms of ones which takes away the need to think
about memory management) as their main tool - at least in this regard.
(Here by 'high-level' I mean one which abstracts away memory management
and pointer manipulation entirely from your normal concerns).
However, I'd like to think that LiveCode actually sits in a slightly
better class... It does not rely on a 'garbage collector' - all memory
management is explicit - its just the engine does all the explicit work
for you. It manages high-level safety without resorting to what is
essentially a 'panic' solution to solving the problem (which actually
has profound and rather unpleasant side-effects and edge cases in all
kinds of ways most programmers who are used to relying on one don't even
realize - but find out pretty quickly about then their fail
catastrophically) ;)
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
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Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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