[futurebasic] re: XREF vs Growing your own

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From: "Edwards, Waverly" <WEdwards@...>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 22:16:33 -0500
>>However. I never use XREF, not it's @ cousin, as they seem too
>>much fuss. What's wrong with grwowing your own handles, then you
>>can check, length and overwriting, and you know where you are?
>>XREF just seems a level of indirection that can create confusion
>>and error... As this original post would imply...
>>
>>jonathan

.jonathan:

>I agree totally. I just never could get into XREF thing. I like, as you
>say, "growing your own".
>Ted
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I like XREF.  You still have to make your own handles.  It just allow
you to pretend that the handle is an array.  I build arrays of records
using XREF and it makes life much easier.


W.