Best Practices

[Erin D. Smale]

Thanks to all who responded to this. I'm probably erring on the side of 
caution, just because Transcript's ease of use is blowing me away with 
how intuitive it is (syntax errors in my examples notwithstanding). In 
other languages (VB and javascript in particular), you could "get away" 
with this shortcut or that, but it wasn't really "the right way to do 
it." In Rev and Transcript, it's as if the shortcuts are actually built 
in, and *they are* the right way to do it. I'm afraid of making mistakes 
when I'm actually learning to do thing correctly...inconceivable.

Also, the feedback cements my need to dive into the message hierachy and 
really wrap my head around it. I have Richard's article on tap and Dan's 
material is a good read. Geez...you guys were serious when you said 
message hierachy was important. ;-)

Thanks to all for your helpful explanations to and patience with this 
newbie.

Cheers,
-Erin

Erin D. Smale wrote:

> I apologise for this tedious exercise in confirmation. I'm having fun 
> with Transcript, and things are working very easily, but I don't have 
> any background in HyperCard, so I want to make sure that I start out 
> with good scripting habits for use in the Rev world.