Re: [FYI] more sdef-based library stupidity
Re: [FYI] more sdef-based library stupidity
- Subject: Re: [FYI] more sdef-based library stupidity
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 10:26:14 +1000
On 4 Jun 2016, at 4:21 AM, has <email@hidden> wrote:
> Bypassing AS's established dispatch rules when dispatching commands that use `use`-imported terminology is NOT my complaint.
OK.
> My complaint is that it's buggering up how those commands' parameters are evaluated. It actually makes those parameters appear as if they're being evaluated within the *library* script instead of within the script in which they're actually declared. (Hence my initial flawed hypothesis.)
Sorry, but I still don't see the sky falling.
> WRONG! Users expect it when an enclosing `tell` block is involved, NOT when a global `use` statement appears.
Let's ask them, shall we.
You proclaimed -- and I paraphrase only slightly -- that this will confuse, anger and frustrate users because it turns established AppleScript behavior on its head.
So all those who are confused, angry or frustrated -- or even mildly surprised -- put up your hands.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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