Re: FolderItem.delete Oddities?

[Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com>]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 31 mars 09 à 20:41, Christian Dorn a écrit:
>
> > No, because of some recent changes in Mac OS 10.5 (or coming  
> > changes in 10.6?) this shouldn't be done, IIRC. I think you'll find  
> > something on this matter in the archives...
> > Maybe this page is of interest for you:
> >
> > http://www.declaresub.com/wiki/index.php/Delete_items_from_a_list
> After looking at that page, it appears a way isn't listed. So I  
> wonder if the way I think of is actually bad.
> I'd do that way:
>
> dim i as integer
>
> for i=0 to ubound(SomeArray)
>  if SomeArray(i).HasToBeDeleted then
>    SomeArray.Delete
>    i=i-1
>  end if
> next
>
> Well, it's similar to the first case, but still a bit different (for  
> loop instead of while, and less lines of code).
> It's a bad one?
Yes.  In fact, code like this is often offered as an example of bad.   
The reason is that it sabotages the intent of the for-next structure.
Charles Yeomans


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