Re: Applescript's grammar
Re: Applescript's grammar
- Subject: Re: Applescript's grammar
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:06:54 -0700
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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.
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Well, it allows both, "its class" and "it's class" both work. They would
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have had to special-case "it" to avoid having "it's" compile correctly
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because apostrophe-s is the usual construct.
I think this is spelling, not grammar.
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The above led me to thinking and I discovered an even more egregious
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grammatical construct in Applescript.
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"me's class" is an acceptable (from the standpoint of compiling and
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running) alternative to "my class" and "class of me"
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That sounds very old-english like.
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Ooh, bad. Of course 'your class' won't compile at all, whereas 'your's
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class' and 'you's class' (but not 'youse class') will, not that they'll do
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anything unless you define them properly:
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set you to my class
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you's class
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-- class
Fortunatelly, I don't think
y'all's class
would ever compile. it ain't proper appleScript.
ES