On 10/23/2005 04:02:35 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
I'm wondering in what context it makes sense to call PERFORM on a constant.
I like to write PERFORMs that return a constant when selecting from a table. It emphasizes that the selection is being done for its side effects. (Programs should be written for people to read and only incidentally for computers to execute. Programs that people can't read quickly become useless whereas programs that can't run quickly can be fixed. Computers are easy. People are difficult.) Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly