Re: Recommendations for AppleScript Formatting
Re: Recommendations for AppleScript Formatting
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for AppleScript Formatting
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:21:32 +1000
On 24/10/01 11:22 PM +1000, Nigel Garvey,
email@hidden, wrote:
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I personally find scripts easier to read if they're either monochrome and
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monostyled or formatted in the colours and styles I chose for myself when
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I first discovered the formatting feature. Presumably this is true for
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most people scripting today.
I'm scratching my head trying to see where that "presumably" came from.
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If multicoloured defaults were to be introduced for AppleScript
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formatting, it seems likely that subsequent newbies would quickly come to
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associate the defaults with the language ideas and adopt them without any
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further thought.
There's part of the problem, though. I see lots of people using them all
monochrome because they don't know that color is possible. Using color by
default would alert them to the potential.
And if the colors are well chosen, and a lot of people stick to them,
where's the problem?
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A year or two down the line, I foresee a large subculture of
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AppleScripters who'll assume that everyone uses the same colours as
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themselves and who'll be less wowed by the discovery of customisable
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formatting than were we.
I'm also trying to see why this is a problem.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden