Dictionary updated?
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If I have an array as a value for a dictionary key, will that value be updated if the array is changed?
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Just tried it and that’s how it seems to work...so it’s a pointer?
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Just tried it and that’s how it seems to work...so it’s a pointer?
@iTap-Development In almost all coding environments (in.the.world) arrays and dictionaries are references. Which is (most commonly) a variable pointing to a pointer.
So, yes, you can think of them like pointers.
HOWEVER... hyperPad has some places where it locally stores what it finds, without obviously demonstrating that it's created a localised variable containing what it's gotten at a certain time. So that variable will contain what it got, when it got it. Other things in hyperPad dynamically update, some others are references and some seem to be pointers.
A table laying out which is which of everything in hyperPad would SUPER HELPFUL!!!
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@iTap-Development In almost all coding environments (in.the.world) arrays and dictionaries are references. Which is (most commonly) a variable pointing to a pointer.
So, yes, you can think of them like pointers.
HOWEVER... hyperPad has some places where it locally stores what it finds, without obviously demonstrating that it's created a localised variable containing what it's gotten at a certain time. So that variable will contain what it got, when it got it. Other things in hyperPad dynamically update, some others are references and some seem to be pointers.
A table laying out which is which of everything in hyperPad would SUPER HELPFUL!!!
@Deeeds thanks!
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Arrays, Dictionaries, and Box containers work similarly. Everything else pulls in the information on execution.
@Hamed so does it matter performance wise which I use?
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Use the best one for the job.
If you have a list of data, use an array.
If you have a mapping of data, use a dictionary.
If you have one piece of data, use a box container.
@Hamed 👍 thanks!
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