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Re: Coerce to 'alias list'
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Re: Coerce to 'alias list'


  • Subject: Re: Coerce to 'alias list'
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:02:55 -0800

At 08:53a +0100 01/22/2004, Emmanuel didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

At 3:23 PM -0800 21/01/04, John W. Baxter wrote:
>On 1/21/2004 2:33, "Emmanuel" <email@hidden> wrote:
> > This really originates in a bug of AppleScript, where it won't let the program
> > return a one-item list.
>
>It's entirely possible for a program to return a one-item list...Finder's
>developers elected not to.

Yes, that's possible. What I was saying was, some bug in AppleScript implies that you have to put special effort to achieve so.

To the point that Greg Quinn's 'choose from list' osax actually surprised me that it returns a list for a single-item selection. (When I first used it, many moons ago.)

Speaking of lunar, check out Google today for its Chinese New Year graphic. ;)
Mmmm, potassium fruits...


-boo
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