Re: Briskets / English
Re: Briskets / English
- Subject: Re: Briskets / English
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:18:11 -0600
At 18:07 +0200 2002 05 15, Brennan wrote:
It strikes me that the verbose form is probably more 'comfortable'
to speakers of romance languages like French, Spanish etc., whereas
the 'dot' form (or indeed the apostrophe form) is more 'comfortable'
to speakers of Germanic/Scandinavian languages where the 's' is used
to represent the genitive case.
interesting analysis, particularly the insight quoted above.
i too prefer the more technical forms, such as dotted, plus
variants which allow a property to be addressed dynamically
as in Frontier/Radio:
characteristic = "color"
fred.shirt.[characteristic]
i'll leave off my critique of AppleScript's syntax, except
to mention that one of the bigger problems with handling the
chaotic dictionaries of various applications is that
AppleScript itself provides too little control over
namespace issues. here again, Frontier provides relief,
since it puts app dictionaries into glue tables which may be
addressed explicitly (and edited if desired).
also, it sounds from your post as if you didn't realize
AppleScript supports the apostrophe form, and lets you mix
it with "of", just like your miniscript example:
the color of fred's shirt
--
steve harley email@hidden
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