New way to modify nested uno structs in LibreOffice BASIC

[Noel Power]

On 05/07/12 02:47, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 03:23 PM, Noel Power wrote:
>> with 
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1720641bf36306fc296635925e571556ced8a302 
>> a long standing wrinkle with modifying nested structs in basic should 
>> be eliminated
>>
[ blah blah blah ]
> The behavior change scares me a bit. I seem to remember some time back 
> that there was a reason for this behavior, but I was given that 
> information many years back..... I discussed it in Berlin
I'd be interested if you can recall
> Do you intend to change UNO so that structures return as a reference 
> (very dangerous, don't do it), or only when used in basic as 
> object.structure.property? This may be workable / safe, but may break 
> some existing code (although I can't think of any code that it would 
> break).
there is no change to uno only how basic handles an already acquired uno 
structure ( either one defined locally or fetched from some other uno 
operation )
>
> I feel silly asking this, since if you know how to change the 
> behavior, then you likely know more about this than I (I don't know 
> how to change the behavior).
>
being bitten ( often ) by changing basic I understand the fear :-) But, 
I can't see that this change would be 'dangerous' it surely is the 
correct and desired behaviour ( but maybe indeed I am missing something 
and perhaps influenced by a long irritation with the way it worked 
before ). Of course the caveat is there is always a risk of some 
unexpected side-effect with any change ( especially true in basic )

Noel