Re: Briskets / English
Re: Briskets / English
- Subject: Re: Briskets / English
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:48:17 -0500
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
I was using that to show that in current Applescript, using a dot in a
handler doesn't work, therefore implementing it would be possible. Not to
say I would ever use something like dr.Mario. I wasn't using to actually
say that that would be something you'd call.
This would make some codes look a little simpler in AS Studio. At least
for me, I would probably call on outside script's handlers with it like
set var to scriptRef.scriptHandler(text field "data"'s contents, window of
theObject)
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?
Because lots of people have mentioned liking it? I probably wouldn't use
it much myself outside of the above mentioned purpose. I just think it's
an innocent way of making it easier for some people to use AS. I could
also throw in that technically "=" isn't too AppleScripty since we also
have "is equal to" and such. It's just personal preferences, and if it's
relatively easy to implement, I don't see a reason not too (at least, that'
s my philosophy on software design) so long as it doesn't muck up other
stuff.
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...
/me is too young to buy them beer....perhaps root beer
Yes, that would be nice. (AS 1.9) is equal to (no list limit)? *wink wink*
Matthew Stuckwisch
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