Re: Best practices
Re: Best practices
- Subject: Re: Best practices
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:59:17 -0600
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Best practices
Good luck with that. Not every one agrees with Luther on that, there was a
discussion on this list a few weeks ago on variables/properties/globals,
etc. that you might want to look up in the archives.
ES
On 2/15/11 1:44 PM, "Stan Cleveland" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
>
>> Never modify a property; Don't use globals.
>> If you need to store a value between runs, use a preference (.plist) file.
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:
>
>> Always use aliases, not text paths except where necessary.
>> Never use a posix path when a colon delimited path will work.
>
> Hi all,
>
> This list is always a great source for AS answers. But the above pearls of
> wisdom from Luther in the last two days lead me to ask if he (or anyone else)
> has any other "best practices" for AppleScript. Many on this list might find
> them instructive.
>
> Stan C.
>
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