> > Director: > > set myList = ["Troy","Ken","Richard"] > > put getAt(myList, 2) > > --> Ken > > Or in "modern dot-lingo" - > put myList[2]
See, I TOLD you I was rusty! ;-) > Very awesome dissertation. While Director's techniques for array > handling are probably the only reason that I perceive it as > lacking in > Transcript, this has certainly helped me to understand Rev's > under-the-hood approach to them. Adding CRs, and doing splits somehow > seems a bit less than straightforward, as you must then do mental > translation from string lines, etc. in order to develop appropriate > paths to data. Plus, every example you've shown is based on knowing > where the data is in the first place - it gets even more complex when > one must search within the array for data, and then do a relational > path to associated data, no? At some point, the advantages to > multi-dimensional arrays would seem to fall by the wayside, > overshadowed by array handling complexity. True. But it really depends on what the data requires. I think where it breaks down is the approach to applying the associativeness, which Director does in a much cleaner way (although I must add, I can't tell you how many hours I and other Director programmers under my supervision have spent looking at large multidimensional lists trying to find the proverbial needle in the haystack as to where their list went wrong - I'm sure you can relate...) > I DO hope that more advanced array handling gets included in a Rev > update (and soon.) In Director, it is second nature. In Rev, I'm not > sure that I'll use them in their current state, beyond simple flat > arrays. I plan to look at Mark and Dar's solutions to see how they > actually fill the gap. I think deep arrays and list handling have > become too intrinsic to my coding techniques to give up on them > altogether. Understood - remember that you may be trying to apply Director techniques to Rev data structures... some unlearning may be required to take advantage of what Rev has to offer. > Aside from all that, THANK YOU. My pleasure! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
