Re: AppleScript dictionary
Re: AppleScript dictionary
- Subject: Re: AppleScript dictionary
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:04:42 -0700
On 9/12/03 7:09 AM, "Bill Briggs" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 9:45 PM -0700 11/09/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> On 9/11/03 9:09 PM, "Steve Roy" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> In Smile, one can view the dictionary of AppleScript itself. Is this
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>> something specific to Smile or can it also be viewed with Script Editor?
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> Originally, it was part of somebody's idea that we feeble benighted
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> scripters should not be allowed to see the inner workings of AppelScript as
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> it might confuse us, as I was told quite forcefully by a very distinguished
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> AppleScript maven when I was starting out and eager to learn everything I
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> could. I'm still angry about it.
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Was that Cal beating up on you? I remember the discussion but not the bad
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boy.
I was trying to avoid specifics, but yes.
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You should stop being angry. Takes too much energy to be angry.
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Spend that effort lobbying to get it changed. Or ask Chris why it
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won't be done. That's a better way to expend that energy, don't you
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think?
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Actually I stopped being angry about it a long time ago - it's more a figure
of speech now - and it takes someone asking about it for me even to recall
the issue now. The idea of trying to prevent and thwart curiosity is still
one that shocks me, as it should, but the particular issue is long behind
me. The best thing - at the time - was simply getting Smile and thanking
Emmanuel for providing this important feature for free. Even now, I have a
lot more essential feature and bug requests to spend time on - since I can
always just open up Smile and check the AS dictionary there if I need to.
When the other bugs and features are taken care of ;-), yes, this is
something I might get around to requesting. (See, it doesn't work me up all
that much any more. But newcomers to AppleScript should indeed be able to
find it in Script Editor.)
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Paul Berkowitz
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