Stylistic question.

[Mike Kerner]

wupz. - i forgot the THEN's after each of the ELSE IF's
too many languages on the same project swimming in my brain

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 9:46 AM Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> For an example like a session during LCG, throwing everything into a
> single script can make it easier to see everything, together, however,
> I absolutely, always, without exception, do this:
> 1) Every object that needs to do something gets its own handler, unless
> there is some reason to allow the behavior to pass up the chain. This
> situation is not one of them.
> 2) I don't use scripts, at all, ever. Every handler is in a behavior stack.
> 3) I don't ever use switch. I can't stand it. If I had to write something
> like the above, I would do something like
> put the short name of the target into snot
> if snot is "first" then
>       doCommandFirst
> else if snot is "another"
>       doCommandAnother
> else if snot is "lastnotleast"
>       doCommandLastNotLeast
> else # uh oh
>       answer "ruh roh."
> end if # snot is "first"
>
> this assumes that the names of the handlers I would be calling are not
> named like the ones in the example, because if they were, you could also
> put the short name of the target into snot
> put "doCommand" & snot into toDo
> try
>       do toDo
> catch e
>       answer "ruh roh."
> end try
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 4:33 PM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that in a lot of the example code I've seen recently,
>> there's a bit of a common pattern.
>>
>> In the card script, there will be code like
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>    switch the short name of the target
>>      case "first"
>>          doCommandFirst
>>          break
>>      case "another"
>>          doCommandAnother
>>          break
>>      case "lastnotleast"
>>          doCommandlastnotleast
>>          break
>>    end switch
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> I've seen this in examples from Livecloud, Appli, the WebApp example
>> from Steven/Michael, and a few other places.
>>
>> I would generally have put this code in each button (or other control)
>> directly, and I'm wondering whether there are advantages or preferences
>> for one of those versus the other.
>>
>> Thanks for any opinions,
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
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>
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> On the second day, God created the oceans.
> On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
>    and did a little diving.
> And God said, "This is good."
>


-- 
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."