Re: does property exists in a record
Re: does property exists in a record
- Subject: Re: does property exists in a record
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:01:35 +1000
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> On 8/12/01 6:59 PM, "Timothy Bates" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I think that AppleScript would be enhanced if all arrays were associative.
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> This can be done transparently - array items simply take their item index as
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> a default name.
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On 13/8/01 12:13 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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But records in AppleScript don't have item indices: records are unordered.
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{a:1, b:2} = {b:2, a:1}. This is important and useful in many cases, so it
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wouldn't be at all easy to make records associative
The idea is that arrays become associative arrays. Nothing happens to
records.
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And people who prefer these new-type ordered arrays to standard records could
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use them all the time instead, if they wished.
Exactly. We all win.
tim