Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
- Subject: Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
- From: Walter Bushell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:12:12 -0500
On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Chris Page wrote:
Scripts are more likely to continue working in more situations and
in the future if you are judicious about tell blocks and avoid
wrapping large swaths of code in them. And if increased reliability
isn't enough of an inducement: by avoiding unnecessarily sending
Apple Events to other programs, your scripts will run faster.
Amen to this, I have one example that ran, that when the long tell
blocks were eliminated ran in like 5 minutes. For removing the last
bugs the latter was much more convenient.
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