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Re: (beep) as string
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Re: (beep) as string


  • Subject: Re: (beep) as string
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:10:50 +0000

Christopher Nebel wrote on Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:56:35 -0800:

>On Nov 17, 2003, at 2:51 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>
>> "Fredo d;o)" posted this line in a script on bbs.applescript.net
>> yesterday:
>>
>> display dialog "The required label does not exist..." & (beep) with
>> icon 0

>According to the language spec, it's a bug. I'll have to test with
>older versions, since I could have sworn that used to not work. If it
>turns out to have changed recently, then we'll see about fixing it in a
>small update; if it's always been that way, then we'll leave it alone.
>
>However, I happen to agree with the "buggy" behavior. I expect to
>change AppleScript at some point to be not so fussy about "undefined"
>values -- Perl works this way, and it seems to work well for them.

Thanks, Chris. I'll pass that back to the bbs thread.

NG
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