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EnTerr
Roku Guru
12 years ago

roAssociativeArray.append() with duplicate keys [solved]

Documentation is laconic Append(aa as Object) Append an AssociativeArray to this one. It is unclear what happens if the same keys are present in both dictionaries? E.g. a={k:"a"} and b={k:"b"}, ...
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TheEndless
Roku Guru
12 years ago
"EnTerr" wrote:
I will give you a reason so my question does not seem capricious: i intend to use this for (home-grown, class-less) object inheritance, so that new methods override parent's existing methods.

I'm already using it like this as a fundamental feature of my framework, so I'm counting on it not changing! Looping through the keys individually is significantly slower (which, incidentally, can have a huge impact on the framerate of 2D API implementations).