Avoid Using "result" as Variable Name

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Avoid Using "result" as Variable Name

I love to use the variable "result" in my programs. For example, "set result to false". But I recently learned the hard way that is a bad choice for variable name in AppleScript.

To debug my codes, I would place "display dialog anotherVar" in my program. But then when it came time to use the if-operator on the "result" variable, I'd get an strange error, such as:

Can't make {<<class bhit>>:"OK"} into type boolean.

It turns out that "display dialog" automatically puts the button string "OK" into the "result" variable.

Chieh Cheng
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:16:54 +0000

I started using "answer" as the variable name in place of "result".

Chieh Cheng
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:49:09 +0000

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