On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 12:15 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm with Jacqueline. I always thought it took the interpreter longer
to
figure out what it's looking at.
_HyperTalk 2.2 The Book_
Says on p. 45. Enclosing literals in
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
_HyperTalk 2.2 The Book_
Says on p. 45. Enclosing literals in quotation marks can result in
considerable time savings-- up to 20% for loops with several hundred
or thousand repetitions.
I think this means --up to 20% which can be
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 01:17 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
_HyperTalk 2.2 The Book_
Says on p. 45. Enclosing literals in quotation marks can result in
considerable time savings-- up to 20% for loops with several hundred
or thousand
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 01:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Okay, I got curious. I revised Dar's original script, which contained
no repeats, to include a long repeat loop:
I think this can be improved by putting an empty loop in the correction
timing. That should get rid of the loop
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
Here is where I see a mystery--
Suppose I insert this line at the start of the the minimal unquoted
test:
if 0 = 1 then put cow into dummy
The report at the end shows that 'get dummy' got empty. If I put
that at the end, then 'get
--- Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
you can't use explicitVariables in rev
i don't understand.
do you mean that you would not advise using
explicitVariables? or that you just can not?
Put it this way: If you are looking to have a
stressful experience then type
set the
--- Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
you can't use explicitVariables in rev
i don't understand.
do you mean that you would not advise using
explicitVariables? or that you just can not?
because of the amount of undeclared
variables in the IDE.
for us lumpen, how does this work?
you can't use explicitVariables in rev
i don't understand.
do you mean that you would not advise using
explicitVariables? or that you just can not?
Put it this way: If you are looking to have a stressful experience then type
set the explicitVariables to true into the msg box then watch
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm with Jacqueline. I always thought it took the interpreter longer to
figure out what it's looking at.
...
Has anyone else any
thoughts on the wisdom or otherwise of quoting all names?
I believe there is a slight speed hit if you
Glad to hear someone finds it useful. I was getting quite sick of clicking
links, waiting for pages to load, clicking back to return to stories, etc.,
thus this project. There are a few more features I'd like to add, such as
searching past stories, displaying reviews, and viewing forum comments,
On 6/19/03 1:15 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
I'm with Jacqueline. I always thought it took the interpreter longer to
figure out what it's looking at.
...
Has anyone else any
thoughts on the wisdom or otherwise of quoting all names?
I
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I love it! Every morning I check out the latest MacCentral headlines
and your interface provides a really clean, quick and easy way to do
it. Thanks very much.
Browsing through your scripts (always on the lookout for good
techniques), I noticed that you start object names with an
Recently, Sarah wrote:
I love it! Every morning I check out the latest MacCentral headlines
and your interface provides a really clean, quick and easy way to do
it. Thanks very much.
Glad to hear someone finds it useful. I was getting quite sick of clicking
links, waiting for pages to
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 04:28 PM, Sarah wrote:
Has anyone else any thoughts on the wisdom or otherwise of quoting all
names?
Since I have the memory of a goldfish, I like to name objects the way I
label them. This means names might have spaces and other interesting
characters that
--- Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you start object names with an underline
and don't put them in quotes. Have you had
any problems with this?
Never. Personally, I find quotes visually
distracting and add unnecessary
characters to the script. Also, the underscore
makes it
still, this is a big step.
quote all object names goes all the way back.
is this quoting taboo only designed to save
programers from their own foulups?
i had imagined there was some deep mysterious
proto machine intelligence sensibility at work.
In a way, you're right. It all boils down to
On 6/18/03 5:28 PM, Sarah wrote:
Has anyone else any
thoughts on the wisdom or otherwise of quoting all names?
I believe there is a slight speed hit if you don't use quotes, since the
engine has to figure out whether the word is a variable or a name.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay |
In a way, you're right. It all boils down to what the interpreter will
accept as well as understanding that if you program in other languages
you probably won't be able to implement those bad habits. Personally,
I'm all for doing whatever gets the job done with the least amount of
typing.
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On 6/18/03 5:28 PM, Sarah wrote:
Has anyone else any
thoughts on the wisdom or otherwise of quoting all names?
I believe there is a slight speed hit if you don't use quotes, since the
engine has to figure out whether the word is a variable or a name
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