Re: Back to Dynamic Records (Was: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings))
Re: Back to Dynamic Records (Was: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings))
- Subject: Re: Back to Dynamic Records (Was: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings))
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:55:14 -0800
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 01:40 PM, Neal A. Crocker wrote:
the result of {{hello:"goodbye"}} as string ... is a bug, according to
Chris Nebel. The fact that it can be made into a record was pointed
out by Victor Yee and is probably a related bug. As Chris pointed out,
the first bug will be eliminated (drat! this "bug" is very useful...)
and the second bug (assuming its actually a bug) will probably be
eliminated as well (again drat! manipulation of raw data in a string
which can then be converted to a record is very useful), so the trick
of constructing a record from strings using "{{+class usrf;:{"hello",
"goodbye"}}} as string as record" will break down in some future
version of Applescript.
If it's any consolation, I'll try to not fix the bug before introducing
a sane way to do the same thing. I understand the desire, but the
current method gives me the willies.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering