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Re: _extra and call_method [message #42339 is a reply to message #42338]

Mon, 31 January 2005 05:13

btt
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Registered: December 2000

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David Fanning wrote:
> Benjamin Hornberger writes:
>
>
>> Any more hints, except defining a dummy keyword for each method?
>
>
> I pretty much make _Extra a feature of every procedure or
> function definition statement I write. It never hurts, and
> sometimes helps. :-)
>
> Similarly, I've gotten in the habit of returning
> the dummy structure as an output argument for every
> object I create. That *really* comes in handy!
>
> PRO myobject__define, class
> class = {MYCLASS, myvar:0}
> END
>

Hi,

I'm running on just one cup of coffee this morning so maybe this is a fuzzy
question: could you explain the circumstances in which this is useful? If you
return dummy named structure - well, what about all the work that goes into
populating its properties it via the INIT function? Or is this for simple data
structures (ala widget event structures, etc. ?)

Thanks,
Ben

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		Re: _extra and call_method By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2005 07:40
		Re: _extra and call_method By: btt on Tue, 01 February 2005 07:18
		Re: _extra and call_method By: btt on Mon, 31 January 2005 07:43
		Re: _extra and call_method By: David Fanning on Mon, 31 January 2005 06:41
		Re: _extra and call_method By: btt on Mon, 31 January 2005 05:13
		Re: _extra and call_method By: David Fanning on Fri, 28 January 2005 14:21
		Re: _extra and call_method By: Benjamin Hornberger on Fri, 28 January 2005 12:38
		Re: _extra and call_method By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 January 2005 17:00

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