Hi Richmond, With the speed we have today, I think I can safely say that there is no caveat against using fields; particularly with very simple references to them; but, when you start parsing their contents, then you'll probably want to be doing it using vars.
IMHO, Joe Wilkins On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Is there anything INTRINSICALLY wrong with using fields instead of variables ? This looks like whether one wants to eat one's dinner the British way (i.e. with an upside-down fork and cut it up as you go along) or the North-American way (cut everything up first and then eat it with the fork). Admittedly using variable results in quicker programs than using fields, but surely this is not a shibboleth? Teaching kids RR it is easier to use fields because the kids can see them (i.e. they resemble the cups with buttons in that I start with); most pre-teens are not terribly hot with abstract ideas. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson (who loves using fields as he has an HC self-taught ancestry).
_______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
