I think actually its more equivalent to evaluating an expression. It still has to parse the parameter, otherwise value(2+3) wouldn't work. That has nothing to do with pointers. A DO statement has to handle verbs too, so its more work. .Jerry
On Jul 28, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Mike Kerner <mikeker...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > Craig, > This is equivalent to dereferencing a pointer, which is what I was > referring to. After reading the explanation in the dictionary, this is not > what I expected. When I said value(b), I expected LC to just dumbly return > "a", but was sort-of hoping that I'd get "1", so part of me is giddy, and > part of me is annoyed at all the code I've written that would have been > much shorter and simpler with it, and faster. > You know, things like repeats that walk x1..x24 > > Richard, > The thing that surprises me is that evaluating "b" to get "a", and then > saying "hmm, I wonder what that means", looking it up, and returning IT'S > value is faster than the fastest DO I could generate. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
