Re: posix path of string
Re: posix path of string
- Subject: Re: posix path of string
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:58:37 -0700
On Jun 23, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 2005-06-23 2:58 PM, Matt Neuburg at email@hidden wrote:
Is the fact that "posix path" works on strings, even though this
is not
documented in the dictionary:
(a) cool
(b) a bug
(c) deprecated
(d) the work of the devil
As Paul correctly notes, dat ol' debil Nebel has commented on this
in the
past. From my personal collection of Nebel's Revelations, May 2, 2003:
"Incidentally, the fact that "POSIX path" is only documented to
work on
file and alias objects. The fact that it works on strings is a bug,
but it's not one that we'll ever fix in AppleScript 1.x, since
obviously people are relying on it."
I continue to stand by that statement. My answer to M. Neuberg would
be "both (b) and (d), but it will remain for the foreseeable future."
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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