Re: are finder items items? what is a vector?
Re: are finder items items? what is a vector?
- Subject: Re: are finder items items? what is a vector?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:41:05 +1100
- Thread-topic: are finder items items? what is a vector?
On 28/12/09 8:12 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Back (*all* the way back) in AppleScript 1.1, there were two types of list:
> linked lists and vectors, which are directional lists. I think linked lists
> used to be written with square brackets [], or maybe it's the other way
> around. Even today
>
> {1,2,3} = [1,2,3] --> true
>
> I believe certain types of operations were quicker with linked lists, but
> generally it wasn't too useful. Anyway, the distinction was removed shortly
> after.
I'm not sure anything was removed. For example:
set time1 to current date
repeat 100 times
set x to [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
repeat 12 times
set x to x & x
end repeat
end repeat
set time2 to current date
repeat 100 times
set x to {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
repeat 12 times
set x to x & x
end repeat
end repeat
set time3 to current date
return {time2 - time1, time3 - time2}
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
AppleScript Pro, April 2010, Florida <http://www.applescriptpro.com>
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