Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!englandr
From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How do I reliably set the userLevel of a stack ?
Summary: To each her own
Message-ID: <9816@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 89 14:51:22 GMT
References: <113@citycs.UUCP> <9719@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <8622@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <8622@saturn.ucsc.edu> sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson) flames:
>No!  That's evil!  It's bad enough when a stack changes the userLevel on
>openstack.  I _hate_ having to type "set the userlevel to 5" in the message
>box, ESPECIALLY when the stack in question is in the public domain and
>contains things that would be useful in other stacks.

Thanks for your opinion, but how about considering that some of us might
have a *legitimate* need to set the user level.  And that's what this
newsgroup is all about: sharing information and avoiding having to
reinvent the wheel.  Generalizing that such and such is "evil," when you
haven't even seen the application in question, is flaunting ignorance,
and gets in the way of this exchange of ideas.

Anyway, if you're really a power user, and an aspect of someone's stack
that you use frequently bothers you, just change it (once and for all)!
The "set userlevel" command was included in the language because there
is a need for it.
-- 

                                               - Scott