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[Dave]

Hi,

Well, I was thinking leave the explicit forms as they are as at least  
you can do a global find on "msg" or "messagebox", but you can't  
search for the shorthand version without hitting every put in the  
whole stack(s).

All the Best
Dave


On 1 Dec 2006, at 12:52, Mark Smith wrote:

> Me too...
>
> Thinking aloud, as it were, would a handler like this work?
>
> on checkScript pScript
>   repeat for each line L in pScript
>     add 1 to lineCount
>     if "put" is in L AND "into" is not in L  then put lineCount &  
> comma after possibleProblems
>   end repeat
>  put possibleProblems
> end checkScript
>
> I guess we'd need to consider "into msg" and "into message" etc...  
> as well as "before", "after" and so on...
>
> If we had a completely reliable version, we could even have it  
> comment out those lines.
>
> Or has anyone already done this?
>
> Mark
>
> On 1 Dec 2006, at 11:36, Dave wrote:
>
>>> put the scaledScore["memoryforstories"] of field "data1" into msg
>>
>> Has got me before now! They can be sooooo hard to find when you  
>> are writing lots of stuff to the message box for debugging, and  
>> then forget to delete just one of them! This is especially true in  
>> a library stack, I had a rouge "put xxx" in a library that took me  
>> ages to track down, I eventually found it in a in function a few  
>> levels away from the main API Call!
>>
>> I think an option that turned off the "put xxx" shortcut would be  
>> a good idea!
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>>
>>
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