On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
And since my discovering that RB now can set object references
ByRef that is
the way I will be getting around the if/elseif problem too.
ByRef was one of my early "surprises" back in the 5.5 days. Boy was
I happy because I'd been previously creating globally accessible
elements and modifying them in my funcs. You want to talk about code
that was tough to maintain ...
However it has to be said that this involves either rewriting the
get()
methods/functions or writing an extra wrapper function. In some
situations
( for example when using Declare functions ) one might not be able to
rewrite the get(). And in performance sensitive situations ( for
example
where the code is being repeated thousands of times ) the overhead
of the
extra wrapper function call could be an issue.
Even in the "thousands" realm, a wrapper shouldn't cause much
overhead unless you're really doing something in the wrapper. But,
you'd probably be doing that extra work in the handling of the
declare's returned value anyway...
Having said all that I'll just have to put up my hands and say "you
win, its
a fair cop guvnor" or "ok constable - I'll come quietly" ;)
But, but, but, we just got our rubber hoses ready ... darn. Ah well,
there'll always be a next time [evil grin].
Tim
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Tim Jones
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