Re: When is a size not a size?
Re: When is a size not a size?
- Subject: Re: When is a size not a size?
- From: Steve Cunningham <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 05:05:22 -0400
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As to how to fix it, AppleScript provides for namespace conflicts using the
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|name| construct:
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get |size| of X --> should work no matter what app you're targeting.
I thought so too and that was one of the first things I tried.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work in this case :-(... at least not on my
machine.
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Case 4 doesn't work because "me" doesn't know how do anything with a size,
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so it passes it up the chain to Interarchy, which we already know thinks of
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it as something different.
I guess I am really missing something here. I don't understand why Case 4
should be any different than Case 1. Isn't Case 1 the same as "me"?
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Gary wrote:
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Steve, did you try with 'other' or with a word that is not a reserved word
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in probably lots of instances?
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'size' _does_ mean size... :)
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Try with another word, property X {pickle:100, onion:50}
Yeah, I know "size" is a poor choice :-) The original problem surfaced
when I tried to do
get size of (info for fileref)
Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to change the name in that case. I just
substituted the record list to highlight the problem without having to
use a specific file.
Steve
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