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Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful
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Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful


  • Subject: Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful
  • From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:18:25 -0800

On Dec 20, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:

On Dec 19, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Chris Page wrote:

It's better if you use tell blocks judiciously than not.

I guess I'm still wanting to know whether this judiciousness extends to dialogs. If not, someone needs to have another look at some of the sample scripts installed with the OS.

“Judicious” means “only when you intend to and only when you must.”

--
Chris Page

 The other, other AppleScript Chris

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