Inline sort param variables:
If anyone files this bug report/feature request, let me know!
I will sign on
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
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thing. No, really.
Bob S
On Mar 3, 2021, at 2:02 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
Perhaps it is a compliment to Livecode/LCS that I EXPECTED it to work and was
SURPRISED
Craig,
It's because when you try to sort something, it's got to be a variable that's
being sorted. So all of the examples you used put "toSort" into the statement
to be "done" coming out compiled as:
sort items of "A,C,T,B" ascending
... which won't work. You need to execute:
do "sort
I love xTalk. While I have written code in many dozens of languages over
my career, I personally will likely never code in anything other than
xTalk for as long as I continue to write code.
That said, one of the "problems" of a programming language that is so
intuitive is that I sometime write
I thought I was pretty clever at using “do”, often going down several levels,
evaluating the whole way before trying to execute a single “do” statement.
Neither of the last lines seem to work:
on mouseup
put "A,C,T,B" into toSort
put "ascending" into sortDir
get "sort items of" && quote & t
Paul Dupuis wrote:
> I just discovered much to my dismay that you can not execute the
> following:
>
> put "ascending" into tDirection
> soft lines of tContainer tDirection international
>
> apparently neither the sort direction (ascending|descending) nor the
> sort type (international|text|datet
Paul:
> apparently neither the sort direction (ascending|descending)
> nor the sort type (international|text|datetime|numeric|binary)
> can be variable!
> I see this a a bug or perhaps a failure to fully
> robust impliment the sort container command?
> Does any one else see this as a bug?
Abs
The number of lines being sorted makes o difference.
The number of distinct sorts will - but at a single 'do' for each of
"several hundreds", you'll not even notice except (maybe) if you are
benchmarking it (around 5ms per 1000 'do's on an elderly MacBook Pro).
Alex.
On 02/03/2021 22:52, Pau
If it is a lot to sort, I am wondering why not use a memory database with the
indexes you need to sort by, or a file database if the data needs to be
persistent?
Bob S
On Mar 2, 2021, at 2:52 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
Okay. Thank you Ralph
Okay. Thank you Ralph.
I was reluctant to use "do" for performance reasons. The sort could be
sorting a large number of lines - as many as several hundred sorts of a
thousand to ten thousand lines.
I could of course do timing trials, but does anyone from the mothership
(or anyone period) kno
I found that you must us a "Do"(thank heaven for "Do"s) if you want to make
variable any LC token that colorizes like "stack", "the", "field", "button",
"put" or "ascending".
I don't think "Do" is a kludge is this case.
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeni
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