Re: finding newest file in a folder
Re: finding newest file in a folder
- Subject: Re: finding newest file in a folder
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:20:35 -0500
On Mar 15, 2004, at 6:13 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
On Mar 15, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Deivy Petrescu wrote:
My point is, I believe that Posix path should return the quoted form
or the posix path. After all if I want a path, I want a path, give it
quoted if necessary. So if necessary, please understand this as a
request for AS. Makes it simpler and more logical.
This is addressed in TN2065. First, there are uses for paths other
than passing them as arguments to "do shell script", and quoting them
would be incorrect in such cases. Second, "quoted form" is useful for
many things other than paths. Therefore, we created two orthogonal
operations instead of one fused one.
Hmm maybe an interesting solution would be to add in this sort of
optional syntax:
posix path of fileString with quoting
or
posix path of fileString without quoting
Then have it default to "without quoting" if the optional term is not
included, for backwards compatibility. This would be similar to all of
the "choose file" type of commands:
choose file without multiple selections allowed
Yeah it's not much better length-wise than:
quoted form of posix path of fileString
But it is a bit more natural and less unwieldy. If you kept the
"without" case to be the default then you could still do the "quoted
form..." thing if you wanted to.
- Ken
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