Re: Briskets / English
Re: Briskets / English
- Subject: Re: Briskets / English
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:17:26 -0400
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 05:17 PM, Matthew Stuckwisch wrote:
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.
I've been thinking about dot syntax and it's possibilities in
AppleScript.
Honestly, it -could- be implemented without breaking ANY scripts.
Try this in Script Editor:
on dr.Mario(nursePeach)
--Let's try to compile this
end dr.Mario
I'm trying to see why you want to be able to do that. First I had
to realize (not being enamored of a dot syntax language) that you didn't
mean Doctor Mario. Now that I read further I see you're talking about
replacing the possessive syntax 'x's y' with 'x.y'; so your example (in
the possessive syntax) would be...
on dr's Mario(nursePeach)
--Let's try to compile this
end dr's Mario
What is that? It isn't a handler definition. It's not an
illustrative variable name word play.
Disregarding my confusion at your example code, I don't see any
clear advantage to writing in that syntax. It sure isn't very
AppleScripty.
So what's the reason it would be a good thing?
If you compile it, it will error. This being on the latest beta of AS,
I don't think it would -too- hard to allow "x.y" for "x's y" since
that's almost the difference between "is equal to" and "=", but I'm not
an expert at AS's internals so I can't say for sure. Might be a thing
for the AS engineers to keep in mind.
Matthew Stuckwisch
My dream is that they are drinking beer and eating pizza and
discussing how to make TIDs return lists of any length. :^)... mmhhhh...
--
Paul Skinner
must be dinner time.
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