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Re: Dumb performance question: tell blocks
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Re: Dumb performance question: tell blocks


  • Subject: Re: Dumb performance question: tell blocks
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:11:09 -0400

On 10/17/06, Michelle Steiner <email@hidden> wrote:
I believe that if you put it inside a tell block, AS will first send
the command to the application; if the application doesn't know what
to do with it, it will go back to AS and then do the built in.

That'd be the core of my question. Is it a runtime thing, where the interpreter sends the events to the app first, or is it a compile-time thing, where the compiler checks the app's dictionary first and, not finding the commands, just compiles them as builtins?

 Also, if there is a terminology clash because the app has the same command
that does something different, the app will do it, and the results,
as they say, will be unexpected.

Indeed.

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