Visitors in LiveCode

by Alex Brisan on December 14, 2018 9 comments

LC : Knock knock
User : Who’s there
LC : LiveCode
User : LiveCode who?
LC : LiveCode visitors

Joking aside, today we will look at one of the most powerful design patterns when it comes to working on trees – a data structure that is as important to computer science as real trees are to human life.

But first, let’s have a closer look at what the tree data structure represents, and why we might find it useful to define trees.

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Functional features in LiveCode – is it just a dream?

by Alex Brisan on February 8, 2018 No comments

If you’re like me, and you come to LiveCode from more “mainstream” programming languages, such as Java (8 or 9) or Python (heck, even C++), then you might be missing some of the very nice functional features for operating on Arrays and Lists, such as maps, filters or even list comprehensions. In this blog post I’ll try and answer the question, whether implementing functional features in LiveCode is a dream?

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