Re: Source Text of Script Objects
Re: Source Text of Script Objects
- Subject: Re: Source Text of Script Objects
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 14:38:41 +0000
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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That's why I expressed the hope recently, on a different list (AppleScript
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Studio), that the AppleScript team might stop what they're doing for a while
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to implement the 15-20 most important commands from Jon's and Akua, or the
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equivalent. I really think it's the most important thing they could do now.
I'd also like to see the AS team plugging some of the biggest,
long-standing feature holes in the language: find & replace, regular
expressions, hashes, etc.
However, once that's said, common sense tells me that the first priority
should be to thrash out all the known glitches, bugs, inconsistencies and
general weirdnesses in the language as it currently stands. (I can think of
a few folk on this list who would be much relieved if they never had to
restate the problems with "
The transition to OS X is a pivotal point in AS's history, and it'd be
great if it could leave behind any of its little [<ahem>:] "eccentricities"
before they become entrenched in the New World too. New features are always
welcome, but I think tidying up the foundations should come first.
May we see great things from AS in 2002...
has
(p.s. As for our 3rd-party osaxen makers, perhaps Apple could show them
some support by cracking open the wallet a bit, in return for some suitable
development/licencing deal on a few of the more vital additions? Just a mad
thought for the pot...)