Re: Month as Integer (or he's ranting again)
Re: Month as Integer (or he's ranting again)
- Subject: Re: Month as Integer (or he's ranting again)
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:30:56 +0000
Richard 23 wrote on Fri, 1 Dec 2000 01:25:21 -0800:
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Sun Real said:
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>The months names are constants, not variables. I haven't played with
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>this but I (a) don't think it could be made to work and (b) wouldn't
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>recommend trying to use constants as record labels in any case. The
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>fastest of these methods was posted by Michelle Steiner yesterday.
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Oh, come on! Thinking outside the box is fun!
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1. There's no such thing as a constant in AppleScript, although there
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are read only properties, of which the months are neither.
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2. If a word has already been defined by AppleScript it seems to me
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to be the only strings of characters that are pretty much
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guaranteed to taken away by an osax in which an author is
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allowed to be as reckless as they want, stealing names from
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the global namespace.
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3. The fastest? Do I smell a challenge? Did you benchmark the
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posted methods? Them's fightin' werds! 8)
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Look out. I'm about to sermonize about self-determinization again....
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Maybe it would be convenient to change all the occurrences of the
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constant "tab" to four spaces. If I uses the word "tab" rather than
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a literal (eg, ASCII Character 9, "\t", etc). I can do this very
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easily.
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set tab to " " -- four spaces. Now whereever my script uses
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tab, it uses the four spaces instead.
'tab' isn't a month, Richard.
NG