On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:16 AM, John DeSoi via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
> In the 4D case and in the cases below (plus PHP), I suspect a collection > is really just an "object" (hash table) with numeric keys instead of string > keys. For example, if I write > > $collection := New collection() > $collection[247] := "fred" > > I doubt that it creates 247 (indexes 0-246) empty elements in the > collection. Would love to hear confirmation or denial from some one at 4D > that knows the internals. > > In fact, Collection has some object-like properties. It can be passed to method as parameters and return values, it is - like object - manipulated by reference, and the content is not typed (it means collection[3] can be a number, and few lines later it can be a string, jsut like a.b .) -- Peter Bozek ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
