Re: [NF] are you considering Python?

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, at 04:53 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jul 28, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote: > > > > Mind you Tuples really take a lot of understanding to get the most of them - and we thought that VFP collections were different!!! > > When all you’ve had are arrays/lists, tuples can be odd. I think of them > as a single piece of data that consists of more than one value, such as > an x-y coordinate, or a GPS point of latitude, longitude, and elevation. > > The thing that trips up most people is that a tuple is immutable, while a > list is mutable. If you find yourself trying to modify a tuple, maybe you > shouldn’t be using a tuple in the first place. The x-y value of a point > never changes. If you have a different number in that tuple, it’s a > different point! > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]