So why not BLOBs? Why not pictures, or text variables? Why does C_OBJECT flaunt the limited scoping abilities we have in 4D? The only reason I can think of is because an object can contain references to other other objects, and it would get really hard to explain what to do with all the parent object references if a child object 10 layers deep got modified.
-- Jeffrey Kain [email protected] > On Jul 25, 2017, at 6:57 PM, David Adams via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is that potentially confusing? Can it lead to hard-to-figure-out bugs? Yes > and yes. Is it a reasonable thing to do in a language? Most every language > that I've ever looked at thinks so, so why not 4D? ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
