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andu undo at cloud9.net
Tue Nov 26 09:39:01 EST 2002


--On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 09:24:46 -0800 Ray Horsley 
<ray at linkitonline.com> wrote:

> on 11/25/02 11:04 PM, Phil Davis at phildavis at attbi.com wrote:
>
>> Actually that should be:
>>
>> Idle handlers are the devil's workshop.
>>

>
> With all respect to Dominique and Phil, I would like to disagree here.  I
> use to avoid idle handlers like crazy in HyperCard until one day one of
> the guys from Heizer Software said simply "There's nothing wrong with idle
> handlers".  I've used them ever since with no problem.  You just have to
> remember they're there when you look for bugs.

If you search the archive you'll find at least one instance where "one of 
the guys" from Metacard explains what's wrong with using idle in MC and 
then decide whom to believe.

>
> Ray Horsley
> Developer, LinkIt! Software
>
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Regards, Andu Novac



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