Re: Not so sure (was Re: Scott Norton is brilliant (was:
Re: Not so sure (was Re: Scott Norton is brilliant (was:
- Subject: Re: Not so sure (was Re: Scott Norton is brilliant (was:
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:03:43 +1100
On 27/1/02 5:01 AM, "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Many of the speed problems involved with OSAXen calls would become
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negligable simply by providing for lists of values to operate on,
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instead of single values. ... How much more complicated would it be for
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the ASCII number/character to take strings and lists? Or add a "returning
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every offset" parameter to offset, or "returning n" to random number?
Seconded. And each already suggested many months ago ...
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When I think about a command like "offset",
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I can't help but wonder what thought process was used in it's
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creation. No "ignore/consider case" parameter, no "last offset of"
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commmand or parameter, it's as though some of these "Standard"
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commands were thrown together with little or no thought at all.
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Even if they were cobbled together quickly for a quick release of
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AppleScript, they have barely undergone any changes at all since AS
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was first released.)
Yip.