Re: push/pop text item delimiters
Re: push/pop text item delimiters
- Subject: Re: push/pop text item delimiters
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:49:33 -0700
At 01:36a +0100 06/30/2004, Nigel Garvey didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
I thought of this a few years ago, but was firmly sat upon when I
presented it here (or possibly on MACSCRPT). The thing is that the
AppleScript Language Guide states that multiple delimiters might be
implemented at some point in the future. That's why 'delimiters' is
plural and why the default setting's a list - for future expansion.
There's been no other sign that multiple delimiters ever will happen -
and it's not clear how they'd be interpreted if they were. But if they
ever should come into being, a script that uses the delimiter list as its
own stack will start producing some very creative results! :-)
Indeed. For some reason, I always -- or maybe I'm thinking of file
commands -- assumed it would be something like {tab, return} for
multidimensional lists.
-boo
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