Re: Briskets / English
Re: Briskets / English
- Subject: Re: Briskets / English
- From: Erik Price <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:57:26 -0400
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 05:17 PM, Matthew Stuckwisch wrote:
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
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.
One could even write a script to convert all "x.y" syntax to "x's y"
that runs before each script runs.
This would be pretty educational, in fact -- writing such a script would
be a good exercise in getting used to the "x's y" syntax of AS, since
you'd ideally write the conversion script to be able to determine when
it is appropriate to convert and when it isn't (for instance, in
floating point numbers you wouldn't want "46.8" to become "46's 8").
Erik
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Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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