A message path question

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Jan 24 13:02:48 EST 2004


On Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 09:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>> Is that because I have the "pass" statement in there?
>>
>> It seems like I should remove the pass statement. Any idea why the 
>> docs in
>> their examples include it? It seems like it would only be useful if 
>> you also
>> wanted the main stack's preOpenStack handler to run. Isn't that right?
>
> It's often considered good practice to be in the habit of passing 
> system
> messages, so if you want to modify behavior later you can add a handler
> farther down the message path without having to go back and revise each
> script.

Test for the target in down path stacks.

Dar Scott



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