Re: Dates gone wild
Re: Dates gone wild
- Subject: Re: Dates gone wild
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:53:58 -0700
AppleScript is very simple, but I think the ASLG makes it sound more
complicated than it really is when it tries to describe "sharing".
Here's how it really works:
There are objects, and there are things that refer to objects.
Those things that refer to objects are properties, variables,
arguments, and the items of lists and records.
Some objects are mutable -- you can change them -- like lists and
records, and some are not, like numbers and strings.
More than one property, variable, argument, etc. can refer to the same
object.
If the object is mutable, and you change it, that change will be
visible to everything that refers to it.
'set' makes a variable, etc., refer to an object.
'copy' makes a copy of an object, then makes a variable, etc. refer to
the copy.
That's it.
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Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Palm, Inc.
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