Substack vs. Library Stack

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Wed Apr 29 15:31:48 EDT 2015


Another thing about libraries: they can have substacks if needed. Of 
course, substacks can't.

Phil Davis


On 4/29/15 10:36 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> I imagine you'll get a lot of responses to this, but one reason to use a
> library is its code is available to all open stacks in LC: functions,
> commands, etc.  Sort of like having a backscript for all open stacks,
> instead of just one.  A substack doesn't do this.
>
> Another frame of reference that might help is the difference between
> behaviors and libraries: code in behaviors is object-specific, available
> only to those objects that have the behavior assigned to them, while code
> in libraries is universal, available to all objects anywhere, and doesn't
> require any assignment.
>
> Other people will probably chime in with additional insights.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 4/29/15, 9:56 AM, "Mike Kerner" <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>> I have not read a straight answer on this, yet.
>>
>> Library stacks vs. substacks why use one vs. the other?  I don't see any
>> clear advantage to Libraries, per se, even for...libraries.
>>
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