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AppGameKit Classic Chat / [BUG] AGK v2 increasing the size of an array

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Scraggle
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2015 23:46
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Increasing the size of an array works OK if you do this:


But this fails:


It's an easy enough work-around but it would be nice to have both methods work without error.

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 07:08
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That is as I would expect it and it is not a bug.

In is an unusual use of the 'inc' command. The command is expected to be used against a numeric variable.

The '.length' of an array is not a normal variable. It is a special object associated with the array that the compiler treats differently. The command to grow or resize an array by changing this value is a special case.

I don't think I know of any language that uses the array.length type object/construct that would allow you to use it with an inc command.

(Usual disclaimer, I didn't create this language or compiler. Maybe the developers of this combination did mean to allow that and didn't code for it. But I have my doubts about that.)

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paulrobson
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 09:11
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inc is for atomic variables that do not have side effects.
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Markus
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 10:04 Edited at: 4th Feb 2015 10:05
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because basic use only integer and float i would expect inc works with this array syntax too.
its more a missing feature.

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Scraggle
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 10:12
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Yes, "missing feature" is a better description. I wasn't happy calling at a bug as nothing is broken but regardless of how things behave in the background, the average user would expect to be able to use INC in this way.

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Markus
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Posted: 4th Feb 2015 10:31 Edited at: 4th Feb 2015 10:31
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yo,
btw instead of inc or a=a+1
you can use also this syntax
myArray.insert(1)

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