There's got to be a better way

[Jim Hurley]

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>Message: 15
>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:31:11 -0400
>From: Mikey <mikeythek at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: There's got to be a better way
>To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>Noob here.
>
>Welcome to another APL convert.  Unfortunately this isn't APL.
>Fortunately it isn't LISP:  CDR(CAR(CDR(CDR(CAR(CDR(CAR(x)))))))
>
>I can't believe that you're complaining about this.  In three lines of
>code you have accomplished what would take another epoch in most other
>tools.
>
>I agree that it's stupid that you have to use a field to accomplish
>the task, but anyway,

Seems to me that someone (was it Richard) had a way to speed up 
writing to and reading from a field. Am I dreaming?

JIm