Christian Kreutzer wrote: > On 12/22/06, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> So we have consistently urged people to wrap their watir expressions in >> methods rather than assign them to global variables. This makes it easy >> to reuse them, and ensure that a correct rebinding occurs on each reuse. >> Also, as i have been using Watir more on large projects, i am finding >> that there are other reasons why this is a sound way to structure Watir >> libraries. >> > > im not sure if i understand this correctly. > > text = $ie.text <-- so, this is bad because we cant be sure if the > rebinding happens just in time when we need it. > > No. The advice applies to Watir objects, the things that are returned by expressions like $ie.button(:id, 'foo') -- in this a Watir::Button object. Your example ($ie.text) just returns a string, which is unproblematic.
I guess you could say that $ie is a watir object, but that wasn't what i was talking about. Clear as mud, i know. Bret _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
