"send" vs "dispatch"

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Tue Oct 9 10:33:17 EDT 2018


Yup. I groked that. So I always return empty for success and false if not. 

> On Oct 8, 2018, at 17:53 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Another nice feature of dispatch is that if the handler does not exist in the target, it will silently and gracefully fail, continuing to execute code after the call.
> 
> Yeah, that's a double-edged doohickey, though. I *do* use it that way sometimes as well, but note that if you don't check the result then you won't know if the dispatch succeeded when you want it to.
> 
> Sometimes silently failing is good, sometimes not so much. YMMV.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wieder





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