Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
- Subject: Re: String to multiple-item list coercion
- From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 00:35:31 -0700
On 9/20/02 6:23 PM, "Steven Angier" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> The ASLG (v1.3.7) indicates that this shouldn't work.
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> Does it mention it at all? (I could see 'characters of...', etc. described,
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> but I only had a quick flick-through. Did I miss something specific?)
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Page 83 of the ASLG (v1.3.7) states "AppleScript also supports
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coercion of a string to a single-item list...". Also, the coercion matrix on
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page 364 indicates that strings cannot be coerced into multiple-item lists.
Though the ASLG doesn't seem to be up-to-date in this regard, claiming that
one can't coerce a boolean to string either. Perhaps there are others--I
didn't look.
Mike
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