On 3/16/07, Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is anyone aware of any drawbacks in using 'the result' as a container for
passing, say, a bunch of records from one handler to another? Like this:


on processRecords
   getRecords
   put the result into tRecordList
   repeat for each line tLine in it
     -- your code here
   end repeat
end processRecords


on getRecords
   put the uBigList of stack "XYZ" into tList
   delete stack "XYZ" -- to remove it from memory
   return tList
end getRecords

I don't see any problems with this Phil. So long as the data is in
variables and not in fields, then access is extremely fast almost
regardless of size. As a matter of style, I would make getRecords a
function - as a general rule, if a handler has to return data, then
use a function.

So here is my version:

on processRecords
 put getRecords() into tRecordList
 -- other processing
end processRecords

function getRecords
 put the uBigList of stack "XYZ" into tList
 delete stack "XYZ" -- to remove it from memory
 return tList
end getRecords

Note the parentheses after the call to getRecord - with a function,
you have to have these and they would enclose any parameters if you
needed to send any.

Regards,
Sarah
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