[sldev] Why hasn't Linden Lab implemented WRITING to NOTECARD?

[Lawson English]

Dzonatas Sol wrote:
> Fire wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> just wondering (and I am sure this question has been asked before)
>> but why, oh why, hasn't LL implemented the feature of writing to 
>> notecards?
>>
>> Wouldnt this solve a lot of our scripting nightmares?  Ie: List memory 
>> limits
>> etc?
>>
>> Give me an early merry xmass LLLD! (lovely linden lab developers)
>>
>> thoughts... ideas? opinions?  all welcome!
>>
>>     
>
> Notecards are tied to a UUID. When you edit a notecard, it creates a new 
> UUID for each new version of the notecard. It's rumored someone at LL 
> decided to prevent a continuous (and possible abusive) creation of new 
> UUIDs for each version of a notecard by simplly not implementing the LSL 
> command to write to notecards.
>
> If you need a DB like storage, just write a listener/sender LSL-program 
> to store values in memory. One LSL program is good for 8K of memory 
> (actually more than that is available, but you'll need room to copy 
> arrays around to avoid a script crash).
>   

Is the practical limitation the same with mono-compiled scripts?

L.