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  • Subject: Rép: Wait Until Process Completion
  • From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:29:14 +0200


Le 13 mai 2008 à 16:05, Mark J. Reed a écrit :

As Mark's post is public,
my response must be public too ;-)



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:47 AM, KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden> wrote:
So this one would work sparing some cycles ;-)

This is Applescript. Sparing cycles is way down on the list of things to worry about...

I typed a smiley ;-)


 repeat
     delay 1
     try
         do shell script "ps -p " & pid
         if the result doesn't contain pid then exit repeat
     on error
         exit repeat
     end try
 end repeat

Sure, but I don't like having multiple (exit repeat)s. I think it's easier to tell what's going on if there's only one loop exit.

Besides, I hate repeating myself.  Anytime I see the same programming
statement on two different lines, especially when they're that close
together, I look for a way to abstract out the common bits.

Of course, pure Structured Programming guidelines would argue against
using (exit repeat) at all, in favor of having the exit condition at
the top of the loop; something like this:

set theResult to pid
repeat while theResult contains pid
    delay 1
    try
        set theResult to do shell script "ps -p" & pid
    on error
        set theResult to ""
    end try
end repeat



OK, I was wondering why generate a fake error to exit a block when it is not necessary.
Now, I know your point of view, thread closed ;-)


Yvan KOENIG



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