johnw101

Stumbled across what seems like a very annoying bug re: coll and/or dict. I'm fairly sure that what's happening is this:

Is this a bug? Why aren't symbols in coll differentiated from numbers with quotes or something?

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Store numerically-indexed entries in coll

Clear coll, push entries from dict back to coll

Coll stores the numerical indexes as symbols, for some reason. Operations like "swap" will no longer work

This is despite the fact that the coll data is exactly the same. You can literally cut the text, close/validate, then reopen coll and paste the data, and everything is fine.

Hi there,
Stumbled across what seems like a very annoying bug re: coll and/or dict. I'm fairly sure that what's happening is this:
Store num

coll-dict-bug

Yah, this is frustrating, especially because if you open the coll editor you don’t see quote marks around the indexes. Alas… dictionary keys are always symbols, so they convert your number coll indexes into symbols when you do the initial pull from coll into the dict.

since coll can use both numbers and symbols for keys you could programmatically rebuild your numerical keys from the symbols at least.

Yah, this is frustrating, especially because if you open the coll editor you don’t see quote marks around the indexes.  Alas… dictionary keys are always symbols, so they convert your number coll indexes into symbols when you do the initial pull from coll into the dict.

coll / dict bug