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[Doriano Blengino]

Jean-Yves F. Barbier ha scritto:
> Fabien Bodard a écrit :
>   
>> the same  but with a collection to share the result
>>     
>
> the access is also *very* easy:
> 	
> 	>>> o = Storage(a=1)
>         >>> o.a
>         1
>         >>> o['a']
>         1
>         >>> o.a = 2
>         >>> o['a']
>         2
>         >>> del o.a
>         >>> o.a
>         None
>
>
>   
You can do the same in gambas, using Object[] or Collection, and 
creating a class for every kind of record.
Unfortunately I don't know them enough to explain to you. But I can 
spend two words about python and ruby, and in general these "agile" 
languages. They are very handy, but also two problems arise. The first 
is that, in your example, if you write "o.a", where "o" and "a" are two 
identifiers (because they are not surrounded by apices or quotes), they 
don't resolve to two fixed address in memory - so they are no more 
identifiers. This wastes a lot of CPU cycles, because the interpreter 
must scan all pool of objects to find them. In other words, python is 
*slow*. Good to explain concepts, but in practical, heavy applications 
it is a pain. We can compare two programming IDEs: gambas and some other 
written in python (Boa? or others I can't remember...). On my machine, 
they simply suck - when gambas is quick and responsive. And think that 
an IDE is not a particulary heavy application.

The second problem is that, I think, they don't check enough at compile 
time (because they can't). For me, coming from pascal, this is a big 
issue. Most of the time the compiler (pascal, or C) catches all my 
typing errors, and the rest is ok. But if the compiler does not catch 
errors, you are never sure that your code is ok. I am already critic 
with some constructs that gambas does not check enough (for me) - so I 
really can't stand with less rigid languages.

Just a simple opinion. I think that if you investigate well your needs, 
you will find a clean and effective way to solve with gambas.

Regards,

-- 
Doriano Blengino

"Listen twice before you speak.
This is why we have two ears, but only one mouth."