(Going back to HyperCard?) the concepts used to be containers and sources of
value - where the latter can be a literal, a function call, an expression...
I always thought that containers were a subset of sources of value, defined as
the items where you could set the value as well as get it;
I'm really liking this feature. I just used it in a series of nested
repeat statements that traverse their way through an array with 5 levels of
keys by writing a function for each level of key. Makes the code so much
more readable.
Pete
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I gave up trying to add dictionary notes a while ago since it never worked,
not sure what the current status is. I guess there's a completely new
dictionary in LC8 but for now, I have my own plugin that gives me the
ability to add my own notes to any dictionary entry.
Pete
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Yeah, kinda makes sense that it would work that way. Grab the data from the
container once, do magic things behind the scenes to get it ready to go,
then loop through the lines. I guess it could work either way though,
where it uses byte offsets to get the next chunk, which would have made the
I'd guess the last of the options.
The more I think about this, the more I think there should be mention of
this in the dictionary entry for repeat.
It's a little like the ability to use a function to create a sortkey in the
sort command. Nothing in the dictionary about that except for a user
Hi Mike,
On Apr 5, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote:
While not exactly whats been requested, this works pretty well:
repeat for each line tLine in (myFilter(sData,abc*,with))
I like the way a where clause reads as in the OP, but being able to use an
inline
Actually, if the container is on the receiving end rather than the source
end, it wouldn't work. But other than that, yeah. (obviously you can't
put something into a function) There may be other exceptions I haven't
though of.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com
Use of the word Container is a bit deceptive. Perhaps datasource would
be better. Is it still possible to add notes to the dictionary?
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
I'd guess the last of the options.
The more I think about this, the more I think there
On 05/04/15 19:54, Peter Haworth wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if you could:
repeat for each line rLine in tLines where rLine begins with xyz
.
end repeat
I know it's trivial to test the condition within the repeat loop but having
where condition seems more elegant somehow.
Pete
Certainly
On 4/5/2015 12:54 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if you could:
repeat for each line rLine in tLines where rLine begins with xyz
.
end repeat
I know it's trivial to test the condition within the repeat loop but having
where condition seems more elegant somehow.
Why not:
Wouldn't it be nice if you could:
Repeat for each line tLine in tLines index tIndex
End repeat
Where tIndex goes from 1 to (in this case) the number of lines in tLines.
With such an elegant repeat loop in LC it kills me to do a:
Local tIndex
put 1 into tIndex
Repeat for each line tLine in
Because I might not want to eliminate the lines beginning with xyz from
the list, just not process them within the repeat loop, there's a
difference.
Pete
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could:
repeat for each line rLine in tLines where rLine begins with xyz
.
end repeat
I know it's trivial to test the condition within the repeat loop but having
where condition seems more elegant somehow.
Pete
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While not exactly whats been requested, this works pretty well:
repeat for each line tLine in (myFilter(sData,abc*,with))
I like the way a where clause reads as in the OP, but being able to use an
inline function for data generation is rather powerful, and if all you need
is a filter,
Nic Ralph. Useful where you don;t want to incur the overhead of repeat with
but still need a counter.
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:03 PM,
Hi Mike,
I like that. Are you saying you can do that now?
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote:
While
As long as you wrap your function in parens so that it forces evaluation
first, then yeah. Have the function do your filter, and then return the
filtered data. (not positive you even need the extra parens, but its a
habit for me in cases like this.)
repeat for each doesn't really care where the
Wow, didn't know that, thanks.
The dictionary doesn't give any clue that's possible, just uses container
as what follows in. Does that mean that anywhere the dictionary uses the
word container, it can be a function call?
Pete
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Most likely yeah. I wouldn't swear 100% (I like to TRY first lol) but it
SHOULD work.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
Wow, didn't know that, thanks.
The dictionary doesn't give any clue that's possible, just uses container
as what follows in. Does that
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