I also stick the first more verbose method. the others will eventually turn around and bite you (they have me)
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Gregg Irwin wrote: > > Hi All, > > I had a thought as I was tinkering with different REBOL constructs, to > see which one I liked best, for a particular bit of functionality. > Sometimes, as you know, a very REBOLish idiom can make all the > difference in the world. > > Here's the idea; you pose a scenario and people can post different > approaches they might use to handle it. It's not a contest for the > smallest solution, but rather to show different *ways* things can be > done. > > ;---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Scenario: > > You have a number of words that you want initialized to "copy []" or > some other value. Do you do it like this? > > foo: copy [] > bar: copy [] > baz: copy [] > > Or like this? > > foreach word [foo bar baz][set word copy []] > > Or something else. > > Do you use a different approach for more or less words? > > Do you do things differently if you're setting words in a object? > > Do you do something different based on the initial value? > > Is there anything else you take into consideration when you do this > kind of thing? > > Thanks for playing! > > --Gregg > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
