Understanding 'the defaultStack'

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > Seems to me one unexpected outcome would be if you had the command
 > "hide me" early in the script of a stack where another stack was
 > visible, and then made references dependent on the defaultStack being
 > the one hidden.

I think maybe one of the reasons we've seen more posts exploring the 
definition of defaultStack than we see complaints about its behavior is 
that in practice it's rarely needed.

I use topStack often but mostly in dev tools; in my own apps I tend to 
use custom functions to distinguish windows by semantic role rather than 
behavioral modality.

I can't recall the last time I needed defaultStack.  It may well have 
been quite recently, but it must being doing what I expected it to do 
since I've never had to think about it before this thread.

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  Richard Gaskin
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