to 'the' or not to 'the' (was 'RE: why metacard?')

[Phil Davis]

Before settling on a coding style, you might want to see if one style results in faster execution than another. Here's something Richard Gaskin put together to determine that kind of thing (MC 2.4 only):

  http://home.attbi.com/~phildavis/dl/4W-MetaBench.mc

Please forgive me, Richard! I couldn't find it at 4W! (I didn't ask permission.)

To open it in MC 2.4, paste this into msgbox and hit enter:
  go url "http://home.attbi.com/~phildavis/dl/4W-MetaBench.mc"

Phil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "erik hansen" <erikhans08 at yahoo.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: RE: why metacard?


> --- Karl Becker <karl at karlbecker.com> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, and as far as why MetaCard is the stuff...
> > It uses the exact same 
> > syntax as HyperCard (which I learned on) , but
> > it extends it in so 
> > many great and easy-to-program ways I can't
> > help but not use it. 
> > Other languages often frustrate me with their
> > strange syntax and ways 
> > of dealing with data... I can find nothing
> > better than writing, "put 
> > char 1 of theWord" since doing the same thing
> > would be plenty harder 
> > in any other programming language.
> 
> just fooling around with the msg, it seems you
> can leave off  "the"s (<the> topLeft of bg btn
> "og") and it works, although the literature
> suggests using the "the"s. 
> 
> since all of my HC stacks were carefully pruned
> of "the"s except where absolutely needed to
> execute, i wonder whether others went back and
> did "the" restoration work before porting scripts
> to MetaCard?
> 
> =====
> erik at erikhansen.org                 http://www.erikhansen.org
> 
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