Re: What happened to delimiters?
Re: What happened to delimiters?
- Subject: Re: What happened to delimiters?
- From: Kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:47:24 +0100
on Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:30:43 +0200, bezoek <email@hidden> wrote:
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Chris Nebel wrote:
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> 3. Only the first character of any delimiter will be considered. This
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> is not documented anywhere that I can find, and is arguably a bug, but
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> it's possible that some scripts rely on it.
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Well, I'd love to see multiple character delimiters, both as in {"a",
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"b"} as in {"and","or"}
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Well 2. It is possible to detect that a) a particular script was made
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before a particular date (release date of SE 2.0 non-beta) and that
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this script is susceptible to the above issue (breaking), b) signal an
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appropriate warning when recompiling.
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You/Apple always have valid excuse if you fix a bug. It is a bug!
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Don't let it linger on because of those scripts that 'rely' on it. Or
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you could phase out the AppleScript text item delimiters, and replace
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them with something great.
Like what?
(BTW, the thread revolved around Read's delimiters[1], rather than
AppleScript's text item delimiters - which I find pretty fast, powerful and
flexible.) :-)
[1] From the File Read/Write commands in Standard Additions
--
Kai
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