Best Practices in Rev development

[Mark Wieder]

Devin-

> Of course now, as of Rev 2.8.x, I can teach them that 'on <event>'  and 
> 'command' handlers are two different things: use 'on' to trap  standard 
> event messages and 'command' to write your own handlers. I'm  still 
> pondering whether this distinction would gain me anything when  I'm 
> teaching new Rev programmers. Do I gain anything by emphasizing  the 
> somewhat artificial distinction between messages and commands?

A good question. At the moment I think the answer is no. Right now the 
drawback to teaching this would be the loss of backward compatibility for 
pre-2.8.1 versions (linux, Mac Classic, those of us with OSX 10.2.8). But I 
have hopes that as rev evolves in the near future there will be more of a 
real distinction in the two, at least as far as speed goes. Conceptually 
they *are* different things, but I don't know that I would try explaining 
this to new rev programmers.

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net