Re: Reco Label Stringer
Re: Reco Label Stringer
- Subject: Re: Reco Label Stringer
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:35:25 +0100
Mr Tea wrote:
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Chomp chomp.
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All that label and string stuff looks rather interesting and useful, Andy.
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Could you focus my attention a bit by saying a little more about the core
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principles that you were demonstrating?
<cough>Hack</cough> Shhh, don't tell Arthur: you'll set him off again. :)
If you look back to last Nov/Dec in the list archives, there was a couple
of threads back then that went into this stuff:
Dynamic Records?? (or other alternatives)
interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
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I didn't quite get why 'cane toad' had those neither-forward-nor-back
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slashes around it (what the heck are they called, anyway?).
See p44-5 of ASLG for info on identifiers.
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I'm particularly interested in labels and strings at the moment because I'm
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going on holiday soon and need to get some for my luggage.
Ba-DA-Boom! <g>
I confess I've kinda gone off this messing-with-records stuff after being
one of the original perpetrators, preferring to use a script object-based
solution (associativeArrayLib [1]) instead - decent performance, easily
extendable and Certified 100% Non-Hacky (TM).
Cheers,
has
[1] Itself an extension of Arthur's original TID-based pseudo-hash script.
He da man.
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