Re: Applescript's grammar
Re: Applescript's grammar
- Subject: Re: Applescript's grammar
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:20:52 -0700
On 6/16/01 9:14 AM, John W Baxter <email@hidden> wrote:
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>Hello? What difference do you spot? I've been staring at this a while.
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"a item" vs "an item"
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While we're on AppleScript's grammar, I'll mention again the incorrect
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usage of "it's" as possessive.
Well, it allows both, "its class" and "it's class" both work. They would
have had to special-case "it" to avoid having "it's" compile correctly
because apostrophe-s is the usual construct.
The above led me to thinking and I discovered an even more egregious
grammatical construct in Applescript.
"me's class" is an acceptable (from the standpoint of compiling and
running) alternative to "my class" and "class of me"
--Michelle
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