Does a Control Exist?

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 15:56:34 EST 2013


On 24.11.2013 22:23, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 11/24/13 1:55 PM, Richmond wrote:
>
>> That WILL halt the script, hence the need to use
>>
>> if exists(some control) then
>>     do something
>> end if
>>
>> checks.
>>
>
> Right. But Ray's requesting that we not have to do any existence check 
> in the first place. He wants the engine to fail silently. I think that 
> would cause issues if it were implemented.
>

Anything that fails silently is a pain in the bum as it is then very 
difficult indeed to see whether or why it failed.

Richmond.




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