Re: Coercion of string to a record property label
Re: Coercion of string to a record property label
- Subject: Re: Coercion of string to a record property label
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:03:07 -0400
on 10/9/01 7:26 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 01:58 PM, Harald E Brandt wrote:
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> Why must life be so immensely complicated?? It makes me even strongly
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> question the strength of records in AppleScript! ... it seems the way
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> Apple wants it.....
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Take a few deep breaths and meditate on Hanlon's Razor [1], Harald.
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Better? Now then...
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Records work perfectly well for what they were designed to do, which is
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provide named access to a smallish set of known-in-advance fields. As
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you observed, they work rather badly at other things, like trying to
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make up fields on the fly. Problem is, such uses have grown over time,
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so now you're looking at a classic case of bit rot. There is an
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enhancement request filed on this sort of thing, and we do plan to
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implement it eventually.
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And in the event of a record emergency...
Ed Lai's iDisk public folder holds record access OSAX.
email@hidden.
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--Chris Nebel
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AppleScript Engineering
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[1] "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained
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by stupidity." For more details, see
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<http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Hanlon's-Razor.html>.
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In this particular case, it's more like "that which can be adequately
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explained by lack of engineering time."
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Paul Skinner
Hey, I just suggested an OSAX!