Re: Why doesn't this cause an error?
Re: Why doesn't this cause an error?
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't this cause an error?
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:20:31 +0100
This from Paul Berkowitz - dated 25-9-02 08.21 pm:
>
But 'set someList's end' to a list item, including an item that's record, is
>
ALWAYS better than concatenating, Nick. You shouldn't disparage it.
I don't. It was the aesthetics of this specific example ('set theFields's
end') that I was disparaging - the reason being that 'theFields' is modelled
on the plural form of 'field', and in real language would be followed by a
lone apostrophe, not apostrophe-s. Using 'set theFieldArray's end' or indeed
'set someList's end' would not cause my face to twitch in the same way,
which is why I pondered changing the variable's name. I should have peppered
this mild jest with leering smileys.
>
Now, what exactly do you mean by "icky"?
See above. Although your admonitions were misguided on this occasion, I
respect the impulse behind them, and find your defense of good scripting
practice chivalrous in the extreme. Dodgy scripting evidently spurs you to
mount your dashing white charger, just as sloppy language use provokes me to
saddle up mine. As an actor/teacher/writer/public speaker, well-crafted
language has been my stock in trade for my entire professional life (apart
from a brief stint as a milkman), and I champion it with zeal. I'm sorry if
I'm overreacting, but 'theFields's end' just makes me cringe. This has
nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that my wife's maiden name was
'Fieldsend'. Nothing at all.
OT ALERT - Nothing about AppleScript beyond this point...
Since I've already given out far too much information, and while on the
subject of 'well-crafted language', here's a book recommendation. I'm
currently reading the 'Arthur' trilogy by Kevin Crossley Holland to my
sprogs (10 & 12). It's a wonderfully direct and authentic-feeling tale of
Britain in the year 1200, about a young squire called 'Arthur', and his
obsidian 'seeing stone' in which he sees visions revealing the life of
another Arthur - one who is destined to become king. I'm having a hard time
not reading on after the little ones have gone to bed, but that would break
the unspoken contract that binds us together in shared experience as each
bracingly short chapter unfolds. Or something. Time to slip back into my
burrow now.
Felicitations
Nick
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