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Re: Check if it is a number
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Re: Check if it is a number


  • Subject: Re: Check if it is a number
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:13:46 -0800

At 8:49 -0500 12/6/2002, Paul Skinner wrote:
>It's faster by far in every test. But that's because it doesn't perform
>the same function. If I follow it properly, it only tests to see if n
>can be coerced to a number.

Code which doesn't perform to specification is infinitely slow in meeting
the spec, even if it executes very very quickly.

Function first, folks, then speed, beauty, brevity, ...

--John
--
John Baxter Port Ludlow, WA USA
AppleScript error: Can't get middle false of. (-1728)
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