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Re: "Save changes to script" when it terminates?
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Re: "Save changes to script" when it terminates?


  • Subject: Re: "Save changes to script" when it terminates?
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:42:51 +0000

Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

>At some point I expect I'll discover the value of having a script
preserve state across launches

Poor man's preferences.

More like poor man's Smalltalk.

Persistent state is one of AppleScript language's most enlightened, sophisticated features. It's problems are practical ones: longtime implementation bugs [1] and lack of user education.

has

[1] Stack/table overflow errors when serialising many/large/complex objects; .scpt files bloated by dead objects due to sluggish garbage collection
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