Hear, hear! I wholeheartedly agree with Ken on code reuse. Let me add that dictionaries should be under source control. A tool such as SoftWhere that helps you manage where code is reused is also valuable. I think shortcomings in these 2 areas are stumbling blocks that keep people from doing things 'right'.
3 cheers, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Ken Wallis [snip] And also, to be clear, I completely disagree with those who suggest that accessing a dictionary item by name from inside a BASIC program is a bad idea because of either inefficiency or some other mythical danger. Code reuse is good. Unreservedly good. I simply don't subscribe to the NIH (not invented here) approach. If you can't code the dictionary item efficiently and access it from BASIC, then code it efficiently in BASIC as a FUNCTION/SUBROUTINE and access it from the dictionary via SUBR. Either way it is far better to get the same result from multiple means than to be hyper-efficient, but have subtle differences in the boundary conditions. Cheers, Ken ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
