> True - but sadly there's no effective way to filter those 523 entries to > see only the ones that are relevant to a List type.
One way to do this is to click the 'lists' filter in the tags section. On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:33 PM Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > > > On 27/03/2016 10:42, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 26/03/2016 23:40, Alex Tweedly wrote: > >> I haven't found (can't find) a spec for LCB, so I'm not sure exactly > >> what "proper lists" are - but I think maybe not quite what I meant. > > > > There's a spec in the "Guides" tab of the LC8 dictionary -- look for > > "LiveCode Builder Language Reference". > I see that, but the ONLY mention it makes of lists are: > - it is one of the Types > - it holds a "sequence of values" > - what a ListExpression is. > > > There's also a whole LCB dictionary section in the "Dictionary" tab > > that describes all the syntax relating to working with Lists. > True - but sadly there's no effective way to filter those 523 entries to > see only the ones that are relevant to a List type. > > > >> I was thinking of "proper arrays" :-) i.e. real, old-fashioned indexed > >> arrays - see Algol, Fortran, etc. > >> > >> So we would have > >> read access in constant time > >> write access in constant time > >> insertion complexity - there is no such thing as insertion :-) > > > > Yes. We're talking about the same thing. The LCB "List" datatype is > > this datastructure. > > > I suspect we're not quite talking about the same thing - I think 'proper > lists' are something more powerful than I was picturing, but can do > everything I am looking for - and a whole lot more. If I simply ignore > all that "more", then they do what I am hoping for. > > Many thanks for you patience explaining this. > I'll go start playing with LCB and try to ask harder questions :-) > > Thanks > -- Alex. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
