Re: Writing To A File
Re: Writing To A File
- Subject: Re: Writing To A File
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:37:23 -0500
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 08:05 PM, John W. Baxter wrote:
Ah, but Standard Additions was originally a bunch of separate Scripting
Additions (not all from Apple). Since I know that, my expectations
differ
from yours. I wish for consistency without expecting it.
Right, I remember having open multiple SA's just to find the thing I
was looking for. It's probably about time for Apple to take a look at
the Standard Additions, clean them up, and standardize them.
Much of the problem is forced on dictionary (aete) writers by the data
format. If some verb takes type a or type b, one can
There's also option 4: Declare an enum whose values are those of the
data types allowed. This can be a little ugly in that you have to make
sure you provide human readable names for these enums that won't
conflict with other things. We do this a bunch in Creator, such as our
convert measurement verb which can take and return a number or a string
such as 72 or "1in".
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac Geek
http://sjmills5.home.mchsi.com/
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