Another newb question - How to you clear a field?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri May 8 15:25:38 EDT 2009


Scott Rossi wrote:
> 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. :-)

LOL! I'm guilty of some of them too, but it's really odd which ones. For 
example, I *always* include "the" when referring to properties -- except 
when setting the cursor, which I simply can't force myself to change, so 
I always write "set cursor to none". Weird, the human mind.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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