Re: newbie question: define a variable?
Re: newbie question: define a variable?
- Subject: Re: newbie question: define a variable?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:22:11 -0800
On 12/30/01 3:00 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> The link is on Apple's AppleScript webpage, where he'll find much else too.
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> For people coming from other a background in other programming languages,
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> the O'Reilly's book "AppleScript in a Nutshell" is probably the best
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> documentation as it is quite complete, "translates" AS terms to for "other
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> language" types, and is almost up-to-date: AS 1.6 including OS 10.0.x.
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I've not seen the O'Reilly book on the bookshelves so haven't had a chance
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to browse it. Does it do much by way of covering "real" programming methods
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in AS? The books I have flicked through (don't recall which), seemed to
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focus on the simpler 'applied' aspects of using AS, e.g. how to control
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applications. I'm starting to do some OOP with AS, and I reckon I've
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learned at least as much by grokking documentation for other languages than
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I have from reading AS-based stuff. Is there any serious reading material
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available for this kind of stuff, or do you have to just figure it out for
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yourself once you hit a certain level?
No, the O'Reilly's book actually gets into conceptual issues too,
particularly as it might affect someone with certain expectations coming
from other languages. Probably not to the extent that you would want - since
it is an introduction to AppleScript - but there's a whole chapter and
frequent re-referencing whenever one of AppleScript's idiosyncratic methods
or terms differ from what I gather is pretty consistent in most other
languages. To someone like me who knows only AppleScript properly and has
dabbled a bit in Visual Basic and OneClick's EasyScript, I could sometimes
see where he was coming from in a "Martian" sort of way. It's interesting.
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Paul Berkowitz