Re: Just submitted this to BugReporter as feature request - comments...
Re: Just submitted this to BugReporter as feature request - comments...
- Subject: Re: Just submitted this to BugReporter as feature request - comments...
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:13:25 -0400
John C. Welch wrote [4/10/04 9:41 PM]:
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> On 4/10/04 3:03 PM, "Jim Witte" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> As for the 'put' command - I have never liked AS's 'set' command - it
>
> makes sense to *set* properties such as the height of an object. It
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> does not however make as much sense to "set" a variable.
>
>
It makes perfect sense. You are setting the value of a variable to a value.
>
It's quite natural. Do you put five minutes into a timer? Of course not, you
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set the timer for 5 minutes. That's the real way you set values.
Well, that's the way _you_ think of it; and Jim thinks of it a different
way. And don't get Howard Gardner started, or we'll be here all night.
You could argue with fence posts and get the same result.
HyperTalk and AppleScript are kinfolk. Therefore, similar and different all
at the same time.
One person's put is another person's set, as they say. Try Logo and let's
really giggle.
HyperTalk rocks. AppleScript rules.
The combination is bliss.
Give peace a chance.
--
Gary
...looking at Zen and the Art of the Macintosh [Michael Green; Running
Press], which was produced with MacPaint and MacWrite and is stunning,
thoughtful and expressive of the real freedom of "Macintosh". It's also
black and white (just like HyperCard, sans xcmd).
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