"send" vs "dispatch"

[Geoff Canyon]

Is there a benefit to adding parameters to send? Or does this just bring it
into parity/redundancy with dispatch?

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:16 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> There is a PR to change this:
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6479
>
> Will add args to send and call.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Oct 5, 2018, 6:09 PM -0400, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > A word to the wise (mostly for IDE and extension developers): this will
> > successfully compile:
> >
> > send "test" to button 1 with "ha"
> >
> > And then if the IDE is swallowing up your error messages (as it does for
> > extensions like Navigator) it will even deliver the message "test" to
> > button 1, just without any arguments, and then die silently.
> >
> > Outside of "rev" stacks, it will deliver the message without arguments
> and
> > then throw an error saying there is no handler "with". I just checked,
> and
> > amazingly this will work:
> >
> > on mouseUp
> > send "test" to button 1 with "ha"
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > on with
> > answer "WTH?"
> > end with
> >
> > But that's obviously unlikely. Far more likely if you're dealing with
> > code you wrote before you became aware of "dispatch" (or maybe before
> > "dispatch" was a thing -- I think Navigator predates LC 3.5) is that you
> > decide to add an argument to a remote call and don't notice that it's a
> > "send" rather than a "dispatch", and then spend half an hour trying to
> > figure out why your arguments aren't passing through <grumble>.
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