Dynamically add items to a list?

According to the LSL wiki; "A list can grow dynamically as large as needed during execution..."

Would be nice if they actually made some mention on that page as to HOW to do it.

I am used to something like - notifyAddresses[iMin] = data; - Where iMin is a global variable and data is a value from the dataserver event.

I assume there's something less straightforward to add an item to a list?

To add an item to an existing list use this way:

listName += itemName;

greetings =)

Thanks!

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=list

Whenever you manipulate a list, the simulator doubles it and that can cause you to run into a stack heap collision event.

The memory efficient way to add to a list and minimize that danger is like this:

myList = (myList=[]) + myList + ["new_item"];

Or, even more efficient..

myList = (myList = []) + myList + (list)"new_item";

OMG Can't believe I didn't catch that. Strife's "To add a single item, it saves on bytecode to cast it as a list instead of bracketing it" post!

let me see if my head is wrapping around this properly....

set myList equal to...
the copied list cleared? (or is it the original list?) plus
the original list plus
the new item

seems a bit odd to be able to clear one copy before adding it back in...

then again it seems odd that they would copy the list to begin with

is there a better explanation of WHY this works?
::does not like voodoo coding, practices wants to know WHY::

test..

"Our's is not to wonder why. Our's is to hack the crap out of it until we get what we want!"

God only know's why or how BlindWanderer came up with this work around. But person after person has tested and reseted the workaround out of curiosity, including myself to see that it really works. 3 to 4 kb is one heck of a lot when we are limited to only 16 kb to begin with.

Maybe Strife will pop in here and give a more detailed explanation of it's special magic.

Well, the LSL compiler source is available, so somebody with a bit of knowledge of parsers and code generation could probably figure it from the code.