| Re: Modifying Arrays and Structures in HASH's (hint: you can't) [message #85389 is a reply to message #85385] |
Tue, 30 July 2013 04:46   |
m_schellens
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Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2013 10:55:37 UTC+2 schrieb fawltyl...@gmail.com:
> On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:46:21 AM UTC+2, mschellens wrote:
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>> Good. So what about _OVERLOADBRACKETSLEFTSIDE ?
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>> Does FL use the interface I suggested as well?
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> No. HASH and LIST do not use _OVERLOADBRACKETSLEFTSIDE at all for performance reasons, subscripting is implemented at a lower level. _OVERLOADBRACKETSLEFTSIDE methods exist only for compatibility, they can be called directly, but they are much slower then subscripting.
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>> Would be in everybody's interest if all implementations are compatible.
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>> Unless you have (or anybody else has) a better idea.
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> IDL syntax and semantics are designed by Exelis, I don't think we can change that. We can only implement IDL better :-)
Well, as it is currently not available in IDL at all, my suggestion still stands alone. For the sake of IDL I hope Exelis will eventually implement it as well.
Regards,
Marc
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