Re: Why is this so?
Re: Why is this so?
- Subject: Re: Why is this so?
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:02:37 +0100
At 19:55 +0100 24/01/01, Christopher Nebel wrote:
>
> "1 through 4" and "4 through 1" are not the same to me.
>
>
We had an internal discussion about this a while back. I don't entirely
>
disagree with you, but there are two major problems. First, there's no
>
precedent for it -- the only thing in AppleScript problem is that there
>
are a lot of cases where it's ambiguous what order the endpoints are
>
really in.
I restate my proposition: that "text i thru j" work along the same lines as
"repeat with i thru j". The former could be replaced by a loop involving
the latter (with the additional convention of course that "- n" means
"length - n").
Emmanuel