AppendElement()

[IdeasVacuum]

AddElement() Adds a new empty element after the current element (or create the first element if none exist).

I propose AppendElement() to add an element at the end of the List (or create the first element if none exist).

This would eliminate testing the size of a List before applying LastElement(), which will crash if there are no elements.

Edit: AppendList() replaced by AppendElement(), better name as proposed by DontTalkToMe; I'm currently unable to reproduce the crash which led to this Wish. Not sure that's a good thing

[Thunder93]

There is no crash with PB 5.42 LTS

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NewList Numbers.b()

LastElement(Numbers())

If it crashes it would be a PB bug. You suppose to be-able to have a return value on LastElement() to know if it has an element or none.

PB Help: Return Value "... and zero if there if there are no elements in the list." ... not sure why PB help repeats if there

[Little John]

There is no crash with PB 5.42 LTS

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NewList Numbers.b()

LastElement(Numbers())

If it crashes it would be a PB bug.

I agree.

Also no crash when running the above code snippet here, tested with PB 5.42 LTS x86 and x64 on Windows 10.

[IdeasVacuum]

...strange. I'm seeing a crash with a structured list, maybe that makes a difference though I don't see why it should.
AppendList() would nonetheless be usefull.

[Thunder93]

It doesn't appear to make a difference for my test.

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Structure BasicStructure 
    Field1.b
    Field2.w
    Field3.l
EndStructure

NewList TestList.BasicStructure()

Debug LastElement(TestList())

[Little John]

...strange. I'm seeing a crash with a structured list, maybe that makes a difference though I don't see why it should.

Maybe you can post a bug report with a short code snippet that demonstrates the issue?

AppendList() would nonetheless be usefull.

I agree.

[DontTalkToMe]

... as long as it is called AppendElement() and not AppendList() since we have AddElement(), InsertElement() and what's being appended is not a list.

[IdeasVacuum]

....good point (element)