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>From: "jt" <jt@ee.net> >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:39:53 -0500 > ... >But you said ASCEND causes a binary search...?!? Sheesh... When did THAT >happen...?!? (I'd always thought it still used sequential search, and >ASCEND just allowed for *LT or *GT type lookups.) >... jt, LOOKUP indeed still uses a sequential search. But the new %lookup builtin does a binary search for ordered arrays. %lookup can behave this new (new for RPG ...) way because there's no compatability issue. (LOOKUP can't change to a binary search because of possibly desirable behaviour with arrays that are not actually sorted. We won't change the behaviour, whether or not it's documented.) Barbara Morris
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