AddElement(List()) = "Value"

[Kaeru Gaman]

it is almost always useless, because it can't be used with structured lists. :roll:

[Trond]

But it CAN.

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; Suggestion
AddElement(StructuredList())\Field1 = Value1
StructuredList()\Field2 = Value2

; Current
AddElement(StructuredList())
StructuredList()\Field1 = Value1
StructuredList()\Field2 = Value2

; Suggestion saves 1 line per added item for structured lists.

; Suggestion
AddElement(List()) = Value

; Current
AddElement(List())
List() = Value

; Suggestion saves 1 line per added item for unstructured list

; Since it saves the same amount of lines per added item for both
; unstructred and structured lists it is just as useful for structured lists.

[ts-soft]

Oh, a endless loop, is this a bug

[freak]

AddElement() is a regular Function.
You cannot have a function on the left hand side of an assignment,
and changing this just for this special case does not make much sense imho.

[Trond]

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Procedure FunctionOnTheLeftSide()
  ProcedureReturn 1
EndProcedure

Dim Array(10)
Array(FunctionOnTheLeftSide()) = 1

In pascal you can access the structure members of functions that returns pointers to structures. That's very handy.

[Kaeru Gaman]

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Dim Array(10)
Array(FunctionOnTheLeftSide()) = 1

I see a problem with your reasoning: this is not a chicken.