Comment about "do" (was clickLine/clickcharchunk)

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue May 7 19:28:46 EDT 2013


On 5/7/13 5:18 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
--  put random(99) into it  --does not work, though it seems like it should

Well, that would just load the variable "it", same as "put random(99) 
into var" would.

> "Do" has a bad rep. It does not deserve it.

Sometimes there's no choice, but I avoid it whenever possible because it 
slows things down. The compiler has to load every time you use it. Same 
with "value".

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