Oh, yeah, and Tao refers to just that - Tao, i.e. the way. With each development tool there are caveats, provisos, and surprises that come up. In a discussion several years ago for one of those tools, the president of the company explained away several really annoying side-effects as "The Tao of" (the development tool). So, this is one of those Tao of LiveCode things - it probably wasn't intended this way, but this is an interesting behavior that probably has other implications and applications that nobody has thought of, yet.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jerry Jensen <j...@jhj.com> wrote: > I think actually its more equivalent to evaluating an expression. It still > has to parse the parameter, otherwise value(2+3) wouldn't work. That has > nothing to do with pointers. A DO statement has to handle verbs too, so its > more work. > .Jerry > > On Jul 28, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Mike Kerner <mikeker...@roadrunner.com> > wrote: > > > Craig, > > This is equivalent to dereferencing a pointer, which is what I was > > referring to. After reading the explanation in the dictionary, this is > not > > what I expected. When I said value(b), I expected LC to just dumbly > return > > "a", but was sort-of hoping that I'd get "1", so part of me is giddy, and > > part of me is annoyed at all the code I've written that would have been > > much shorter and simpler with it, and faster. > > You know, things like repeats that walk x1..x24 > > > > Richard, > > The thing that surprises me is that evaluating "b" to get "a", and then > > saying "hmm, I wonder what that means", looking it up, and returning IT'S > > value is faster than the fastest DO I could generate. > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
