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Re: name a variable with number [message #87461 is a reply to message #87459]

Tue, 04 February 2014 10:07

David Fanning
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rjp23@le.ac.uk writes:

> If anyone feels the inclination to cover this in more detail it'd be appreciated as I find myself using it quite often, normally as a shortcut to repeating the same thing over and over.

I think we are all confused about how hard-coding more variable names
can be a shortcut to doing *anything* over and over again. It seems to
me to be the *last* thing you would want to do. Doing things over and
over again are exactly what arrays and lists are good for.

Giving things names may be good for the soul (In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, etc.), but doing it in a program just
seems crazy. :-)

Cheers,

David
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		name a variable with number By: gunvicsin11 on Tue, 04 February 2014 02:35
		Re: name a variable with number By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 04 February 2014 03:59
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 04:16
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:31
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:50
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:57
		Re: name a variable with number By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:09
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:29
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 09:28
		Re: name a variable with number By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 February 2014 10:00
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 10:07
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 11:45
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 11:51
		Re: name a variable with number By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:41

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