Re: how can an application's AS dictionary be wrong ?
Re: how can an application's AS dictionary be wrong ?
- Subject: Re: how can an application's AS dictionary be wrong ?
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:23:32 -0700
At 04:18p -0400 05/07/2004, Steven Majewski didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On May 7, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On May 7, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Steven Majewski wrote:
Where does the displayed dictionary come from ?
From a human being who types it. Errors in a dictionary can be a
human error in data entry; they can be a result of a change in the
software design that did not get to the person writing the
dictionary.
Obviously someone typed in the errors.
The question is when there is a mismatch between the syntax that the
Script Editor shows as the dictionary ( and what 'check syntax'
checks ) and the syntax that the application actually accepts --
where *IS* this mismatch?
It doesn't have a location. If I'm right and you're wrong, where is
our mismatch? How about if you're right and I'm wrong -- where is it
then?
Whichever is wrong needs to be corrected, and voila, no more mismatch.
Is this a mismatch between comments/documentation and the raw
dictionary data structs, or is it a mismatch between the static data
structs and how they are used in the program ?
The dictionary is informational in nature; it does not process any data.
It is used when your script editor compiles scripts, but not when it runs them.
It's not a "magic translator box" as we might initially imagine. ;)
-boo
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