Re: Name Conflicts
Re: Name Conflicts
- Subject: Re: Name Conflicts
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:21:03 -0700
On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 08:32 US/Pacific, Stephen Holland wrote:
Given how well Apple designs interfaces and software API's it is
surprising that Applescript did not have a way of resolving name
conflicts. Especially since Applescript did not have a lot of the
tools built in to handle text and file manipulations. I understand
that AS was designed with the expectation that osax would be created
by the community. This problem was not unexpected. It is dealt with
in a number of ways in various object oriented languages. Something
like a "uses" clause or "import" statement with a renaming option
would have solved this.
I'm under the impression OSAX were added late in the development
process to allow extensions to AS because the developers were unable to
get in all the features they wanted before shipping. So I'm not
surprised there was no time to update the language to handle them
better. Here's hoping a future version of AS addresses the issue.
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Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Palm, Inc.
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