yeah, not w/ standard stuff but it would be possible with some special code,
like if you stored all the names of the variables and a pointer to those
variables so you could look it up like that at run time from a string
::shrug::
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Boosting Server Performance, and TCFs
> dynamic referencing a table is one thing, that should be ok. What I
> mean is referencing an object dynamically like you can do with
> javascript/flash with the eval() function.
>
> For instance, in javascript/flash, if you have a set of fields, named
> field_1, and field_2, and so on to field_10, they could be referenced
> dynamically like so:
>
> for x = 1 to 10
> eval("field_"+str(x)) = "some value"
> next x
>
> The same could be done in witango with a bunch of arguments, <@arg
> field_1>, and so on.
>
> <@for start=1 stop=10 step=1>
> <@addrows local$newArray <@arg field_<@currow>>>
> </@for>
>
> I don't believe this could be done in a compiled language. You would
> have to use a select case method or build an array of objects or
> something.
>
> Robert.
>
> On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Atrix Wolfe wrote:
>
> > you could still do dynamic referencing if they made allowances for it,
> > like
> > if they stored a table w/ the names of the vars and pointers to them.
> >
> > If you can make java bytecodes though and then use gcc to make that
> > into an
> > executable or dynamic library, would you really need With to make a
> > witango
> > compiler? That is assuming you dont lose anything like dynamic
> > referencing
> > in either of those 2 steps.
> >
> > I've been kind of wondering about this since With said you could make
> > tango
> > into java bytecodes though...if you made your code into java
> > bytecodes, does
> > it support dynamic referencing TCF's, includes etc?
> >
> > Just wondering if could expect any and all code to work the same
> > whether it
> > was tango or java bytecodes.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Boosting Server Performance, and TCFs
> >
> >
> >> Just because our tafs would be compiled in some native format, doesn't
> >> mean we would have to start worrying about things garbage collection.
> >> The compiled tcf would would have in/out points and process data
> >> within. It would run within the memory space of the witango server,
> >> and
> >> the server would handle the garbage collection and the nasty stuff.
> >> The
> >> main benefit would be that complex methods in a tcf would not be
> >> scripted, but compiled so that there would be no tag processing and
> >> the
> >> other performance drags that are inherant with an interpreted
> >> language.
> >> It would mean, though, that certain things you can do in a tml or taf,
> >> you could not do, like dynamic referencing.
> >>
> >> Robert.
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 09:49 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote:
> >>
> >>> But it does add several layers of complexity too. I'm not an expert
> >>> at
> >>> this
> >>> level by any means, but it seams to me that Witango isn't ready to
> >>> support
> >>> this kind of low-level environment (nor any interpreted language for
> >>> that
> >>> matter, e.g., ColdFusion).
> >>>
> >>> For example, garbage collection and other memory allocation issues -
> >>> what
> >>> sort of Metatags would we need for this?
> >>
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