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Re: Try 'n' Tell
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Re: Try 'n' Tell


  • Subject: Re: Try 'n' Tell
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:07:14 -0700

At 15:31 +0100 9/24/2002, Mr Tea wrote:
>When a try block applies to all the commands within a tell block, which of
>the two syntactical options below is preferred?
>
>[try inside or tell inside]

I tend to put the try inside the tell, for no particularly good reason (in
any language which provides a try-like construct, I tend to protect the
minimum possible with it).

But I don't think either is preferred by AppleScript (I'm sure we have two
opposing views on the list).

--John

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