Re: my favorite AppleScript error message
Re: my favorite AppleScript error message
- Subject: Re: my favorite AppleScript error message
- From: "Scott Babcock" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:23:15 -0700
- Thread-topic: my favorite AppleScript error message
That's gotta be my favorite, too. It's essentially saying...
"I can't do what I just did"
This is, of course, the core of the "force the error/parse the message"
technique for coercing to text things that AppleScript claims can't be
coerced to text...
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:58:10 +0200
> From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: my favorite AppleScript error message
> To: AppleScript Users List <email@hidden>
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> At 10:55 AM -0400 8/17/05, deivy petrescu wrote:
> >
> >>0.1234567890123456789 -- Syntax error. some object
> >
> >An old monster with a new face.
>
> Another pleasant error message is:
>
> {a:1} as string
>
> --> "Can't make {a:1} into a string."
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