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Re: My 'actual' code

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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

>   var all = [
>       { cells: getobj("ihsrow").cells,
>         string: ""
>       },
>       { cells: getobj("ipsrow").cells,
>         string: ""
>       },
>       { cells: getobj("ifsrow").cells,
>         string: ""
>       },
>       { cells: getobj("idsrow").cells,
>         string: ""
>       },
>       { cells: getobj("irsrow").cells,
>         string: ""
>       }
>   ];

This is asking for a DRY LART.
 
> though I'd be tempted to build these using a function -- only one letter
> is needed to create the different objects.

A function is not necessary:

  var names = ["ihsrow", "ipsrow", "ifsrow", "idsrow", "irsrow"];
  var all = [];

  for (var i = 0, len = names.length; i < len; ++i)
  {
    all.push({cells: getobj(names[i]).cells, string: ""});
  }

But (with an implementation of ECMAScript Ed. 5’s Array.prototype.map) with 
regard to code length at least it can be optimized to

  var all = names.map(function (name) {
    return {cells: getobj(name).cells, string: ""};
  });

and maybe even (longer, though)

  var all = "hpfds".split("").map(function (letter) {
    return {cells: getobj("i" + letter + "srow").cells, string: ""};
  });
 
I suggest avoiding the identifier “all”, though: it is not self-explanatory, 
and already used by a deprecated property of the object referred to by 
“document”, which could interfere in an HTML context.

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    My 'actual' code "Mel Smith" <syntel@cox.net> - 2014-10-21 11:20 -0600
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