Another newb question - How to you clear a field?

[J. Landman Gay]

Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>>  if literal 
>> names are not quoted, the engine takes twice as long to execute the
>> statement because of the additional lookup.
> 
> Jacque, is this really true? 

I confess I made up the "twice as long" part, I don't really have any 
hard numbers on the increase. But as I understand it, it takes longer. 
Though with Rev being as fast as it is, the delay is probably not very 
noticeable most of the time.

On a tangent, another thing that takes longer is the omission of "the" 
when refering to properties; again, just because the engine has to do a 
second level of interpretation. You see a lot of this:

  set cursor to none
  set name of field 1 to "whatever"

Not a good habit, though the engine has no problem with it. I believe it 
also takes slightly longer to use abbreviations ("fld", "cd", etc) 
because that also requires a second-level lookup, but I for one refuse 
to give those up.

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