Re: Dates gone wild
Re: Dates gone wild
- Subject: Re: Dates gone wild
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:22:56 +0200
At 12:15 AM +0200 9/10/03, Axel Luttgens wrote:
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Doug McNutt wrote:
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>At 10:10 +0100 9/9/03, Nigel Garvey wrote:
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>>Paul Berkowitz wrote on Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:05:38 -0700:
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>We have been down this turnpike before and I remain frustrated. If someone would use precise terms to define "reference" instead of saying fuzzy things like "It's much higher level than a pointer." Or "It's all text." perhaps we could get it straight.
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Conceptually, that idea of textual replacement should not be a too misleading one (even if surely not a description of AppleScript's internals).
Merci Axel. And, although AppleScript really manipulates descriptors, "a reference to" causes the descriptor to be stored as such, so yet the idea of textual replacement is not too far from the truth I think.
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An AppleScript expression
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Expr
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is a reference (or more generally, involves reference(s)) if
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and only if
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Expr = contents of Expr
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evaluates to false.
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(counter-examples?)
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set x to a reference to x
set y to a reference to x
y = contents of y
-- true
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Emmanuel
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