Array union syntax: grumble or bug?

2007-10-07 Thread David Bovill
This one has bothered me for a while now - is there a good reason for these two rather strange behaviors of the union command for arrays: 1) union with an empty base array always result in empty instead of adding the new array 2) an array is empty even if it is not (null) and has stuff in it

Re: Array union syntax: grumble or bug?

2007-10-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: This one has bothered me for a while now - is there a good reason for these two rather strange behaviors of the union command for arrays: 1) union with an empty base array always result in empty instead of adding the new array 2) an array is empty even if it is not (null)

Re: Array union syntax: grumble or bug?

2007-10-07 Thread David Bovill
Yes - the question is more should it be like this? Do other languages treat a union the same way? I think it is very counterintuitive and it slows down a common task of accumulating data in an array. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Array union syntax: grumble or bug?

2007-10-07 Thread Jim Ault
[full text of the original email appears below] Start with Rev only uses associative arrays thus you need to get the key list for access. There is a feature request to add indexed access, which would allow dataArr[0] dataArr[1] etc Second Rev allows variables without 'variable typing' or