Re: "=" is equal to ...
Re: "=" is equal to ...
- Subject: Re: "=" is equal to ...
- From: Dave Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:21:54 -0800
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Paul Berkowitz
<email@hidden> wrote:
BTW, why do people type out " is equal to " every time when " = "works
perfectly well?
This is almost a funny story for me ...
I learned what little I know of AppleScript the same way many of you
did, by finding examples and trying stuff out. It's amazing how many
examples are written with "is equal to" and my first thought when I
encountered that was "You've got to be kidding! I want a program, not a
novel! What's wrong with "="?"
If I remember correctly, I was playing around with the old Watson
tutorial, which used "is equal to" all over the top 2/3 of the script.
At some point near the bottom I found "=" used instead and laughed for
nearly 5 minutes.
I'm still convinced that AppleScript was written by someone who wanted
to punish scripters by wearing their keyboards out with excessively
verbose junk like this (at least there's a "workaround"), but maybe
that's just my C showing. ;-)
Dave Stewart
Aqua-flo (Goleta)
email@hidden
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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