Re: TechNote 2106
Re: TechNote 2106
- Subject: Re: TechNote 2106
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:57:25 -0700
At 15:20 -0800 3/3/04, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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Of course, it's still a sort of lame example. A better name would be "webbed feet", and even then it's sort of useless, because it's either going to be "true" or "missing value" -- no real ducks have non-webbed feet.
Does everyone notice that Chris finds it necessary to put a hyphen in non-webbed?
The original property test is a clear example of a major flaw in AppleScript. That is the allowing of multiple words in a variable name. Essentially no other language does that. One has to use underlines or dashes so that a variable has a single, easily parsed, name.
The author of 2106 is trying to point that out but we, and the rest of the AppleScript developers, are not listening.
feet are webbed -> feet_are_webbed
text item -> text_item
text item delimiters -> text_item_delimiters -> $/
Chinese duck -> PekingDuck
unicode text -> UTF8 | UT16
and we would reduce the problems discussed on this list by half.
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