Richard, Thanks for the pithy explanation! I think the most import thing for the developer's design philosophy in your narrative is:
"This may be useful for allowing ephemeral data to be bound to such a stack at runtime, safely refreshed with each session by virtue of never having been saved at all." Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 11:25 AM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Updating Text-Script Only Stacks in Run-Time, Message Path Memory Mark Waddingham wrote: > The point here is that the purpose of script-only stackfiles is > purely that of storage - storage in a form which means they work > well with version control such as git. This can't be stressed enough. The only difference between script-only stacks and traditional binary stacks is what's stored when saving. As the term makes explicit, with a script-only stack the only thing that gets saved is the stack script. In every other way they are identical. Indeed, as far as I can tell once they're loaded they are indeed the exact same structure in memory as any other stack. And like any stack, as long as they're in memory you can do anything you like with them, even adding cuatom props or substacks. But when you save, only the script will be preserved, as the name tries to make clear. This may be useful for allowing ephemeral data to be bound to such a stack at runtime, safely refreshed with each session by virtue of never having been saved at all. And of course if you need persistence with such additions, just use a traditional binary stack. Conversations about script-only stacks have been much more complex than the subject itself. If it helps, there is only one rule to remember: A stack object is a stack object; the only difference with a script-only stack is that only the stack script is saved to disk. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
