| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 21 Sep 2000 at 09:53:13 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Hotkey Config/Need suggestions |
This sounds simpler, faster, and more effecient than reading a config
file and applying formatted strings to an array based on a checksum
criteria to you? How did you get your middle name, man! *Argh*
-Pat
Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote:
>
> *Argh* Use hashes, man ! That's what they are for !! Check the Ami docs for
> hash and atoms.
>
> To explain: An atom maps a string to an integer. And a hash is a dictionary
> where you can efficiently store values under keys and look them up later with
> these keys. The code will look like this:
>
> - Create a hash
> - Register all config strings as atoms
> - Use the IDs of the atoms to put the default values in the hash
> - Read the config. Lookup the ids of the items and put them into
> the hash.
> - Later in the code, query the hash for the config items by using
> the ids.
>
> Simple, fast, efficient and most of the work has already been done by
> Ami.
>
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