RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-24 Thread Reuben King
gt; Michael J. Sheldon > Internet Applications Developer > Phone: 480.699.1084 > http://www.desertraven.com/ > PGP Key Available on Request > > -Original Message- > From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 16:45 > To: [EMAIL PR

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Sheldon
] Subject: RE: What's the use of structures, anyway? It seems that you cannot store structures in client variables, at least not if the client variable is stored in a database... Can anyone confirm this or am I screwing somethi

Re: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-22 Thread Steve Aylor
Good Gawd Man... thats damn funny! In <034201bfaafb$e9f90eb0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Sheldon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a fit of unbridled passion, wrote: But as a recent instigator of a list "hate" crime - I may in a small way, be responsible for instigating/propogating the recent bad vibe (

Re: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-22 Thread Steve Aylor
To whom ever is responsible for this tasy piece: access_flags = StructNew(); access_flags["is_superuser"] = StructNew(); access_flags["is_superuser"].default_value = 0; access_flags["is_superuser"].description = "Is this user an administrator?"; Thank you much :-), quite cool.

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-22 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
| |www | http://www.pengoworks.com | | mailto | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ++---+ -Original Message- From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What's the use of struc

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-22 Thread Reuben King
It seems that you cannot store structures in client variables, at least not if the client variable is stored in a database... Can anyone confirm this or am I screwing something up? -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/li

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Reuben King
[This followup was posted to cf-talk and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In , [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a fit of unbridled passion, wrote: > You seem to be missing something here. Structure's can be nested to the Nth >

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Reuben King
inal Message- > From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 11:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: What's the use of structures, anyway? > > > Structures seem totally useless to me. If they were two dimensional, > then I could

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Reuben King
[This followup was posted to cf-talk and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In , [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a fit of unbridled passion, wrote: > You seem to be missing something here. Structure's can be nested to the Nth >

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Judah McAuley
At 02:24 PM 4/20/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Alright, I think it's beer:30 again. We're getting cranky. Myself included. Yeah, I agree. Even though it's only 1 something in my time zone. Good thing I work only 2 block from a fantastic pub... Judah ---

Re: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Sharon DiOrio
The real power of structures isn't in a single level, it's in nesting them and creating complex data hierarchies. For instance, a structure I could use, for example: [Country].[State].[City].[Company] OR UnitedStates.Massachusetts.Boston.Mindseye If you've used javascript (or any other object

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread jstiefel
ot;].description = "Is this user an administrator?"; etc.. etc.. -Original Message- From: Reuben King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's the use of structures, anyway? Structures seem totally useless t

Re: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Kevin Marshall
Reuben, I totally understand what you're saying. When I first considered structures, they seemed like really complicated mechanisms for holding data that could be just as easily placed into a query or a list. What I've found, however, is that structures can be incredibly powerful if you thin

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Jennifer
At 12:09 PM 4/20/00 -0700, you wrote: >Wow, I feel so enlightened! Imagine all the wasted time I've spent using >structures! > >Every stop to consider that structures can be members of structures, or that >you can have arrays of structures? That definitely pulls you out of two >dimensions. Alrigh

RE: What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Mike Sheldon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 11:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's the use of structures, anyway? Structures seem totally useless to me. If they were two dimensional, then I could see definite value. I'd love to see something like: .. etc ...

What's the use of structures, anyway?

2000-04-20 Thread Reuben King
Structures seem totally useless to me. If they were two dimensional, then I could see definite value. I'd love to see something like: .. etc ... As I understand it right now from reading the CF docs and Forta's books, structures are nothing at all but a one dimensional shorthand wa