the message box

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Sat Aug 20 01:01:29 EDT 2005


Recently, Jon  wrote:

>> I'm not sure you expect the IDE to *know* that you didn't intend call the
>> message box versus making a script error.  Sure, the context could be gauged
>> to some extent, but perhaps you *did* intend to call the message box and
>> simply made a contextual script error in the remainder of your code.

> I'm not sure I understand what you wrote.  Is there any situation in
> which using a reserved word as the name of a parameter variable would be
> meaningful?

I missed your comment about the use of "msg" as a *parameter* variable. I
understood you were concerned that using "msg" as a variable name should
somehow be flagged by the IDE as being invalid (based on the sample code you
posted as being a problem).  So my mistake.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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