1. Re: More hairsplitting with Ralf
Circa 03:57 PM 4/23/98 CE, Ralf and David wrote a lot of stuff about
structures which I will not quote here.
Ok, all that makes sense, but the real issue as far as I am concerned
is not speed, not efficiency, but:
1. The ability to build sequences without losing the ability to type-check
assignments to the sequence elements.
(someone wrote an example of how to do this, in a roundabout way,
but it requires a separate bunch of code for each different type of
sequence, and re-writing with each change to an existing sequence)
2. The ability to refer to an element of a sequence by name, without
maintaining a separate constant list (NAME=1, ADDR=2....) which
is just another place for errors and conflicts to creep in.
If structures turn out to be slow, so be it. I bet they won't be slower than
QbaSick! The real question is: could structures be implemented with an
include file, or will it require RDS to hack the code?
Irv
