Re: Array assignment / initialization [was Re: synonyms]
On 06/28/2017 03:32 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
Yes, it would be nice if we had an easier (terser) way to assign to an
array. Maybe something like Python / Perl use to assign to a dictionary.
...and ruby. Let's not forget ruby. Ruby allows for
DoSomething name: "my chart", width: 100, label: "This is a chart",
annaray: sAMine
put { "name": "my chart", "width": 100, "label": "This is a chart",
"anarray": sAMine } into tA
DoSomething tA
LCB lets you do just that. And I'm promised that *someday* the LCB
syntax will morph into the fabled Open Language project that's used as
the excuse not to fix these anomalies.
--
Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com
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Re: Array assignment / initialization [was Re: synonyms]
On 28/06/2017 23:32, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
Yes, it would be nice if we had an easier (terser) way to assign to an
array. Maybe something like Python / Perl use to assign to a dictionary.
put { "name": "my chart", "width": 100, "label": "This is a chart",
"anarray": sAMine } into tA
DoSomething tA
OK, here I go answering my own post (again).
function _
local tA
repeat with i = 1 to paramcount()
put param(i+1) into tA[param(i)]
end repeat
return tA
end _
and then I can do
put _("name","my chart", "width",100, "label","This is a chart",
"anarray",sAMine) into tA
DoSomething tA
or, indeed, even
DoSomething _("name","my chart", "width",100, "label","This is a
chart", "anarray",sAMine)
Still doesn't handle pass-by-reference - but that's a problem even with
variable numbers of params in LC, so I'll accept it for this case.
-- Alex.
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