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[Alex Tweedly]

On 10/08/2017 18:44, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> Mark Wieder wrote:
>> I do use getter and setter routines regularly. I think your function 
>> is useful, but won't by itself get at the question of "who changed 
>> that?", and for that question there are at least two possible methods:
>>
>> method 1:
>>
>> local sCurrentFlavorA
>>
>> command setCurrentFruitFlavorTo pFlavor
>>    put pFlavor into sCurrentFlavor["fruit"]
>> end setCurrentFruitFlavorTo
>>
>> setCurrentFruitFlavorTo "orange"
>>
> With rare exceptions I use Method 1 almost exclusively.
>
I do a variant of this ....

local sCurrentFlavorA, sCurrentFlavorSetterA
command setCurrentFruitFlavorTo pFlavor
    put pFlavor into sCurrentFlavorA["fruit"]
    put the executioncontexts into sCurrentFlavorSetterA["fruit"]
end setCurrentFruitFlavorTo

(usually only if in 'development' mode)

Alex