Re: OSAX within tells
Re: OSAX within tells
- Subject: Re: OSAX within tells
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:29:43 -0600
on 1/18/2001 8:34 PM, Shane Stanley at email@hidden wrote:
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On 19/1/01 12:02 PM +1000, Jolly Roger, email@hidden, wrote:
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> I just used "display dialog" because it came to my mind first. Feel free to
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> substitute another OSAX command if that would make you feel better. ;)
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It still strikes me that you're out to abolish a mostly harmless practice,
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when the time and brain power could be better spent. Are you going to
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rewrite all scripts so all the coercions done by Jon's/Akua/whatever are
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outside tell blocks? You're going to end up with spaghetti.
If you make it a practice to only use tell blocks when absolutely necessary,
then you won't have to rewrite your scripts, because they will be written
well to begin with. That's the whole point of this thread.
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Having said that, I'm thinking mainly in terms of the standard additions --
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I'd be more cautious with third-party stuff.
Uh huh...