The problem we have with arrays is that they don't let us really use indirection, i.e. pointers/handles. It's a lot easier to write generic handlers for a screen full of controls with pointers/handles. "DO" is ok, but it's the same problem we've always had with "DO", namely it's slow. It's very, very flexible, but it's slow.
I can also understand the newbie saying "but I can actually read and understand that code" (meaning, code that uses "do"). Indirection, references, recursion, etc. definitely can all make code harder to read and/or follow, and so it has to be documented well, and heavily. I am pleased that half of my DO's can come out, thanks to being able to evaluate expressions to indirectly obtain values. Now, if I could go the other way, too, it would be even better. On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Mike Kerner wrote: > > And this won't be truly great until I can >> >> put "y" into x >> put 1 into value(x) >> >> because I can use this to get values but not set them, so I'm still stuck >> with >> >> do "put 1 into"&&x >> > > I'm all for inventing radical new programming paradigms, and maybe Open > Language may help with some of this, but what you have there is a common > need addressed through a different pattern: > > In essence it's a name-value pair, and whenever you have a set of > name-value pair in which the names can't be known in advance one of the > most common solutions is an associative array, which LC handles well: > > put 1 into tArray[x] > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web > ____________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
