keeping track of the open cards for update

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Jul 26 16:10:46 EDT 2013


On 7/26/13 1:38 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you go with your initial solution, however, you have to use "short ID" (the straight "ID"
>> contains more than one word), and you have to declare your global variables, either at the
>> start of the script, or within each handler that uses them (you probably knew that).
>
> Yes, but that brings up another question I forgot to ask: I'm
> *assuming* that using an id rather than name is faster, as I assume
> that internally, the name is used to look up the id, and on from
> there.  But is that really how thing work?
>
>

Yes. Using ID is always the quickest way to access anything.

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