Re: Briskets / English
Re: Briskets / English
- Subject: Re: Briskets / English
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:19:47 -0700
On 5/15/02 10:53 AM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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AppleScript has always supported the possessive ('s) form as well -- see
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p. 124 (1st edition) or p. 167 (2nd edition) of the ASLG -- but for some
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reason most people don't use it. For example:
>
>
tell application "Finder" to get the name of item 1 of the startup
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disk's first folder
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--> "Applications" (at least on my system)
or even:
tell application "Finder" to get the startup disk's first folder's item
1's name
--> "Applications"
which is a much closer analogy to dot syntax. I didn't follow that part of
the discussion which omitted this, but didn't realize that the writer just
didn't know about it.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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