SPAM-MED: Re: Time to upgrade my technique...

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi Richmond,

With the speed we have today, I think I can safely say that
there is no caveat against using fields; particularly with very
simple references to them; but, when you start parsing their
contents, then you'll probably want to be doing it using vars.

IMHO,

Joe Wilkins

On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Is there anything INTRINSICALLY wrong with using
> fields instead of variables ?
>
> This looks like whether one wants to eat one's dinner
> the British way (i.e. with an upside-down fork and cut
> it up as you go along) or the North-American way (cut
> everything up first and then eat it with the fork).
>
> Admittedly using variable results in quicker programs
> than using fields, but surely this is not a
> shibboleth?
>
> Teaching kids RR it is easier to use fields because
> the kids can see them (i.e. they resemble the cups
> with buttons in that I start with); most pre-teens are
> not terribly hot with abstract ideas.
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson (who loves using fields
> as he has an HC self-taught ancestry).