Another newb question - How to you clear a field?
Scott Rossi
scott at tactilemedia.com
Fri May 8 15:21:34 EDT 2009
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 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.
Good god, I'm guilty of all these things. :-)
Actually, it's pretty amusing that one is penalized for being concise.
Maybe I'll stick with my "bad" habits (there, I quoted).
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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