Re: Strings & Loops
Re: Strings & Loops
- Subject: Re: Strings & Loops
- From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:48:20 +0100
Le 1 févr. 2012 à 14:03, Thomas Fischer a écrit :
> Hello Yvan,
>
>> This behavior was described for the first time several years ago by Serge Belleudy-d’Espinose.
>
> This I don't know. Is anything online available on that? I only found "Discovery of this remarkable device is generally credited to Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose." referring to script properties with "my" in Matt Neuburg's book.
>
>> It's described in Matt Neuburg's AppleScript The Definite Guide.
>> In 2nd edition it's pages #382 & 383 (in other editions, search for "Speed > List Access"
>
> Well, not quite, as far as I see. I don't own the book, but I don't see any reference to the interconnectedness I mentioned.
> On page 383 (from Google) I find the sentence:
> "I've been unable to arrive at a rule explaining what causes list access to be slow and when it isn't."
> which at least gives a hint that more examination might be useful.
> And
> "However, all you need to know is that, in such cases, the tricks with reference-based or property-based access will speed it up."
> on the same side doesn't hold in general, as my examples show.
>
> Best
> Thomas
If you read French, there is a pdf 'book' dealing with that.
Go to : http://trad.applescript.free.fr/aplea.html
Download :
Allez plus loin en AppleScript.pdf
Les exemples de scripts du guide
It's with these resources which I first discovered this behavior.
If you don't read French, download at least the file :
Les exemples de scripts du guide
The embeded scripts are really interesting.
The sort code based on the references is really astounding.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 1 février 2012 14:32:51
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