Get fillGradient props

[Dar Scott]

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:
> 
> This is all great fuel for the scripting style panel at the conference. Also we have:
> 
> - strict compilation

On some days I need this a lot.  

> - being even stricter by also declaring repeat loop iteration variables (I do this)

One might interpret the repeat as the declaration.  

> - declaring variables at the top of the handler or in the block they are used. Ali and I do the latter and Peter B thinks it's poor style because we don't have block scoped variables.

I usually write small handlers so it doesn't matter, but in a recent project I wrote some very long handlers and I switched to your way to stay organize and document.  (I probably should have sat back and organized my thoughts and used small handlers.)

I'm assuming "block" in a casual sense of a blank line or two and a line or two of comments followed by code.  

Are there some potential problems in declaring variables this way?  

> - anything else we can come up with

I'm sorry I won't be there to throw candy when style suggestions seem legalistic.  (Don't tell Richard and Ken, but I often use naming conventions for handlers over a few lines, and even sometimes for tiny ones.  I guess I'm being won over as I get older.  I had thrown candy in light-hearted protest against their talk on naming conventions, back in Monterey, causing a bit of confusion.)  

Dar