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Re: [FYI] more sdef-based library stupidity
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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.

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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