My fault, I was thinking Karina. Too many K-people.
No offense intended... :)
At 10:52 AM 3/28/01 -0500, Clint Little wrote:
>For what it's worth Kerry is a guy! ;-)
>
>
>At 10:41 AM 3/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Whether it makes sense or not depends on what you're trying to
>>accomplish. You could just be taking the items in order. Granted, the
>>example may have been lame, but the point was that working backward from
>>value was no guarantee that you got the matching property.
>>
>>That said, I think if Kerry's list was structured a little differently to
>>begin with, the whole thing might be easier. Maybe #words is a property
>>that matches up with a linear list of words, so you just extract the
>>wordlist and then you have your list of words.
>>
>>However, I don't know all the requirements of what she's doing, so I
>>won't try to second-guess the design.
>>
>>- Tab
>>
>>At 04:26 PM 3/28/01 +0100, Karina Steffens wrote:
>>>Hi Tab,
>>>
>>> > a prop for a given value, which besides being slow(er), will
>>> > fail if you
>>> > have the same value under two different props. Consider:
>>> >
>>> > m=[#Name:"Joe", #Password:"Joe", #Name:"Bill", #Password:"Bill"]
>>> >
>>> > Under your approach, if you do a getOne(m, "Joe"), you'll
>>> > always get #Name,
>>> > which is the first property that has a value that matches.
>>>
>>>True, but Kerry's list is very different (and weird) - each property has a
>>>list all of it's own, so there's no chance of conflict.
>>>
>>>Also, I'd never use a list like in your example. "I'm only an egg", but I'm
>>>strongly convinced that it's using the wrong syntax.
>>>It should really be:
>>>
>>>m=[[#Name:"Joe", #Password:"Joe"], [#Name:"Bill", #Password:"Bill"]]
>>>
>>>Otherwise, there's nothing connecting the password to the name. "Bill" is
>>>just as likely to be the password for "Joe" as it is for "Bill"...
>>>If nothing else, how would you use the syntax list[#name]? Would it be "Joe"
>>>or "Bill"?
>>>
>>>If you consider property lists, each list is an object. To prove my point,
>>>I'll convert both lists into parent scripts:
>>>
>>>First list structure:
>>>
>>>property name
>>>property password
>>>property name
>>>property password
>>>
>>>on new me
>>> name = "Joe"
>>> password = "Joe"
>>> name = "Bill"
>>> password = "Bill"
>>> return me
>>>end
>>>
>>>You can see right away that it makes no sense...
>>>For one thing, "Bill" will always overwrite "Joe". Also, I doubt if you'd
>>>even be able to compile it.
>>>
>>>Second list structure:
>>>
>>>Parent script1:
>>>
>>>property name
>>>property password
>>>
>>>on new me
>>> name = "Joe"
>>> password = "Joe"
>>> return me
>>>end
>>>
>>>Parent script2:
>>>
>>>property name
>>>property password
>>>
>>>on new me
>>> name = "Bill"
>>> password = "Bill"
>>> return me
>>>end
>>>
>>>(This is a simplified illustration. In reality you wouldn't write it out as
>>>two seperate parent scripts...)
>>>
>>>It's the same with property lists. Director might compile it ok, but even if
>>>you'd manage to make it work by enumeration, you might as well make it
>>>linear (aside from the bit where there's nothing connecting the #password to
>>>the #name)
>>>
>>>
>>>I hope all that ranting made some kind of sense :)
>>>
>>>Karina
>>>
>>>
>>>
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