hair-pulling frustration

[Peter Haworth]

Right, it looks like something in the message box message box
interpretation scripts changed between the various releases I tested.

I guess I should file a bug report.

Pete
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:38 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 11/14/2014, 11:58 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> My feeling is that something changed in the message box parsing routines
>> and the semicolon is being taken as a separator between two statements.
>>
>
> A semicolon in any script is interpreted as a line ending, except when
> within quotation marks. If the example failed (where the semicolon is
> within the quotes) then that would be a problem with the scripts that
> interpret the message box content.
>
> That said, it is very tricky to implement code correctly in all cases from
> the message box because of the "do" statements and other contortions it
> needs to use. Ideally, tests should always be conducted from the script
> editor where the intermediate interpretive layer isn't present.
>
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