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Re: Why is it


  • Subject: Re: Why is it
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:45:07 -0400

At 6:57 PM -0800 12/31/04, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Your question was indeed so subtle that it was not entirely clear that you
realized that " > " operator made sense only for numbers here, implying an
automatic coercion to integer. I'm sure lots of readers here didn't realize that.

Oh for god's sake, can you ever stop being a supercilious prig for even five minutes. The necessary coercion is obvious. Don't be so quick to assume that the rest of the list doesn't think, or doesn't have a clue.



AppleScript _constants_ can't depend on  user preferences. How would one
ever know what someone else meant? The AppleScript constant for "Monday" is
Monday, no matter what your regional settings. In fact, set your
International Prefs to French/France now, and try:

Dialects vanished ages ago. Nobody needs a refresher on this. Maybe it's time for you to make a new years resolution.


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