Re: Inheritance
Re: Inheritance
- Subject: Re: Inheritance
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:20:26 -0800
On 1/22/2004 17:07, "Wallace, William" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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Emmanuel pointed out that I had the wrong definition for the error, but it
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didn't really help me understand what was going on there. In this case it
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seemed that a script object could not set the value of a global variable
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unless it was both declared as global AND initialized to an arbitrary value in
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the top level of the main script. You touch on this in your example 21, but
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I'd like to understand the logic behind this behavior better.
The global doesn't exist until its value is set. If it is only declared,
AppleScript knows it's (going to be) a global, but can't find it, and is
unwilling to create it merely because the script object wants to set it to
something.
--John (I think) Baxter
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