Re: Li'l Help with my if, then, else statement?
Re: Li'l Help with my if, then, else statement?
- Subject: Re: Li'l Help with my if, then, else statement?
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:00:03 -0600
on 3/2/2001 1:04 AM, Cal at email@hidden wrote:
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> First, your script will be much easier to follow if you used paths like:
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> file "MacLab NetAssist Setup:Remote Control Setup:Network Assistant
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> Preferences"
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> instead of this:
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> file "Network Assistant Preferences" of folder "Remote Control Setup" of
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> disk "MacLab NetAssist Setup"
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I heartedly disagree, Roger. These are perfectly good Finder object
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specifiers, and are what is obtained when recording the Finder. Not
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everyone is comfortable with colon-delimited path notations, and I
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presume that the original poster may have attempted to maintain an
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English-like style.
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I see no program with his original specifiers, and I encourage new
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scripters to use the long forms.
I don't see how a long backwards description is easier to follow than a
simple straight-forward path; but whatever floats your boat, I guess.
JR