On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:15:06 -0700, "Stockly, Ed" wrote:
Off the top of my head I can only think of a one case where a value
can be
coerced by placing the class first:
date "3/27/2007"
But that form doesn't work with most other classes
I don't understand this. How else do we navigate the file system but
by this kind of coercion?
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set theString to "/Library"
set theFile to POSIX file theString
set theAlias to alias theFile
tell application "Finder" to set theFolder to folder theAlias
set theList to {class of theString, class of theFile, ¬
class of theAlias, class of theFolder}
-->{string, «class furl», alias, folder}
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Or are you referring only to the coercion of numerical values?
