Re: A reference to
Re: A reference to
- Subject: Re: A reference to
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:40:05 -0700
At 4:07 PM -0600 08/08/03, Doug McNutt wrote:
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I want to elicit an erudite discussion of the English-like phrase "a reference to" in AppleScript.
Not saying that this is what you'll get from my post, but let me state how I understand "a reference to".
For me, "a reference to" is nothing more than a shortcut - when I teach about it I say "it's just text processing". In other languages you would say "define": the variable just stands for the exact thing that you wrote. Not a single other thing is performed. In particular, the "reference" is certainly not a pointer. Once you say "set w to a reference to window 1", w is just a shortcut for "window 1", whatever "window 1" will mean when you use "w".
Whether my remark can be of any use in Eudora's context, I don't know.
Emmanuel
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