Re: Damn send button / Wind chill
Re: Damn send button / Wind chill
- Subject: Re: Damn send button / Wind chill
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:24:08 -0800
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me> The non-anal-retentive among us need a better reason ; >
>
Humm, resorting to insults, a sure sign of an insecure debating position.
First, I certainly didn't intend that little quip as an insult. In some
cultures that would be considered a high compliment. : )
It was meant as joke and I certainly didn't intend any offense.
(maybe I should start using that as my email signature.)
>
> AppleScript was not designed to use nested tells, it was designed to allow
the use of nested tells and if you can't comprehend the difference, well
never mind.
That's certainly an issue we disagree on. I believe that nested tells in
their many forms were designed in the language from the start and were
clearly intended by the designers to be integral to AppleScript. You seem
to believe that it is some kind of patch that they added as an afterthought.
Since AppleScript was designed to be a scripting language with a natural,
english-like flow that is easy to follow; since the same kind of command
hierarchy is used in Hypertalk, which was used as the model language for
AppleScript; and since appleScript examples from Apple from the start have
included nested tell application blocks and since they work so smoothly
without using too much time or causing problems I'd argue that it's part of
the design of the language.
>
>>>> If tells are so benign why do they cause such headaches for novice
scripters?
Personally, I think if you keep it simple novice scripters have a fine time
with tells and nested tells.
But they don't do so well with bad advice or being given arbitrary scripting
rules that don't improve their scripts.
I would say a novice trying to follow rules like "No nested application
tells" and "no osax commands within nested tells" will have a lot more
headaches than a novice writing scripts whose commands flow naturally.
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