Re: Recommendations for AppleScript Formatting
Re: Recommendations for AppleScript Formatting
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for AppleScript Formatting
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:49:12 +0100
steve harley wrote:
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my 2 cents --
[snip]
All very good points. I'd also like to see more sophisticated programming
tools. I've seen the topic discussed only once or twice myself, and I'm
surprised it doesn't pop up more often. Anyway, here's another couple 2c
for the pot...
One word springs to mind: Objects. From what I can tell, programming tools
are still just old-fashioned text editors at heart. They understand numbers
and letters... and that's about it. But a _script_ editor potentially has
much more information on the material it's working with than even a
scriptable text editor (which also knows neat stuff like paragraphs and
words). A smart script editor could potentially do an awful lot of clever
stuff.
Heck, why even use an ordinary text editor for your high-level editing?
Wouldn't it be much more powerful to punt handler objects and script
objects around on a big 2D pasteboard, say. Then you'd really have some
views to write home about. I don't see why bytecode should get all the fun.
There's an opportunity there for some enterprising soul to completely shift
the paradigm.
Now, somebody please pass the sedatives before I get really carried away... :)
has