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From: Mark Carter <[e-mail]>
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Date:          Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:37:09 +0000
Subject:       Re: Bits and Pieces (fwd)
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> On Sep 19,  9:32pm, Ben Wyatt wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Bits and Pieces (fwd)
> > Greetings Mark, you wrote some text on the subject Re: Bits and Pieces, and
> > now I'm going to answer it.
> >
> > MC> > Use banks to store data like that... it'll take less memory and will be
> > MC> > much neater...
> > MC> >
> > MC>
> > MC> Hmmn, I'm not so sure ;-)
> > MC>
> > MC> The difference in memory would be about 20K - and I'm willing to
> > MC> sacrafice that for what I think is the neater method.
> > MC>
> > MC> At the moment I read in all the stats (at the begining of the
> > MC> program) from a data bank that I have set up.
> > MC>
> > MC> Say, I have 10 teams with 20 players in each and each player has 10
> > MC> stats (assume all 2 byte integers). Reading a stat from the Data
> > MC> Bank, I would have to do something like:
> > MC>
> > MC>       Result=Deek(Start(Bank)+400*Team+20*Player+2*Statnum)
> > MC>
> > MC> Actually, it would be much worse this because I have so many
> > MC> different types of stats that I would need to store pointers for
> > MC> where each type of stat is in the bank - this would take up even more
> > MC> memory and would be very untidy.
> > MC>
> > MC> Compare this to loading all data from the bank into arrays. Then all
> > MC> I would have to do to access a stat is
> > MC>
> > MC>      Result=Statistic(Player,Team,Statnum)
> > MC>
> > MC> Much nicer, dont you agree.....?
> >
> > I guess so... but how about this:
> >
> > Def fn
> _RESULT(Player,Team,Statnum)=Deek(Start(Bank)+400*Team+20*Player+2*Statnum)
> > Result=Fn_RESULT(Player,Team,Statnum)
> >
>
>     I tried using definitions like that for my game, but it seems(at least
> on my version of Amos) that there is no way to globalize that definition. That
> means that if you are using procedures, each procedure that uses that
> definition would have to have it included at the beginning of the procedure.
> This raises problems with error checking(you'll have to change every instance
> of the definition if you change your mind) and speed(due to redefining of
> fuctions).

Is this true? I always assumed all Def fns were global - but then
again I never used them before.


Cheers,

Mark

Mark Carter
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