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Re: *Very* strange script / global variable behavior
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Re: *Very* strange script / global variable behavior


  • Subject: Re: *Very* strange script / global variable behavior
  • From: "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:43:15 +1100

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:30:42 -0700, Doug McNutt wrote:

>Can someone provide a subset of AppleScript constructs that obey some
>kind of KISS principle and should be recommended to a novice programmer?

Paul already did, I reckon:

"[...] problems can [...] be avoided by always declaring properties and
globals at the very top of a script or script object, never in the
middle, even though AppleScript allows the latter. Since most people do
just that, we rarely run into these problems."

--
Shane Stanley  <email@hidden>


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