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Re: Why save text item delimiters? Philosophical question....
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Re: Why save text item delimiters? Philosophical question....


  • Subject: Re: Why save text item delimiters? Philosophical question....
  • From: Andrew <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:54:08 -0400

On 6/18/03 10:58 AM, "David Crowe" <email@hidden> wrote:

> The real flaw, I think, is that the "text item delimiters" are
> essentially a global variable.

Indeed. Given that one of the first rules of scalable programming is to
avoid the usage of global variables it's somewhat baffling that the
designers of apple script choose to do it this way.
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