Hi Eric,
you appear baffled by my use of the term "dereference". I hope the
following quote will help.
Note the sentence:
"Is it important to clear large blocks of data before
DEREFERENCING them?"
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Hi Bo,
Thank you very much for showing me your history list functions. I just
have a couple of questions. One is that it seems REBOL automatically
purges the history list of duplicates, so I didn't try to put that into
mine. Was that necessary for an older version of REBOL?
I notice that you do
clear system/console/history
system/console/history: history
Is clearing the history important for releasing the memory that the list
occupied? Is it important to clear large blocks of data before
dereferencing them?
One thing that I think would be very useful for a lot of functions, not
just for a history-search function, would be the ability do something like
this:
userdata: ask/default "Prompt: " "Edit this string"
The user would see:
Prompt: Edit this string
and would be able to edit the default string, just like you can edit a
string selected from the history list with the up and down keys. Is there
any way to do this with REBOL now?
Thanks again,
Eric
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Hope this helps,
Elan
