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From: combs@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Dave Combs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Values returned from SEND
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Date: 10 Nov 88 02:24:15 GMT
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Currently the SEND command is used to get around the standard search path
when determining what Hypercard entity (button, card, bkgnd, etc.) will
receive a message.  However, the use of SEND is limited to sending MESSAGES,
which by definition will not return values.  Is there any way, other than
the rather ugly "define a global variable to use for returning stuff"
to invoke a FUNCTION out of the normal search path? (By the way, you can't
do a function directly using the global variable - you must define a method,
and just "know" that it will return a value).
It's very annoying to not be allowed to get a value back from a SEND without
a big kludge.

Thanks,
Dave

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