Re: Records
Re: Records
- Subject: Re: Records
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:15:59 -0800
On Nov 3, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
Vertical bars are used to prevent names from being interpreted as
dictionary terms; useful if you have a variable whose name is the
same as an item in some application's dictionary, for instance. So
I guess the point of using them in a record property name is to
avoid having a record property be compiled one way where set and a
different way where queried later. Which doesn't explain why the
compiler is stripping them.
I have since found that vertical bars are not always stripped. I
just haven't yet found which context strips and which does not.
What I really need is a reference to a document that explains this.
That would be the AppleScript Language Guide, except that it doesn't
explain this particular wrinkle. The short version is that if the
identifier consists entirely of lowercase letters, numbers, and
underscores, *and* it doesn't match any application- or AppleScript-
defined terminology (such as "file"), then the bars will be
discarded. Long version, including why it works that way, available
on request, but it's not really useful.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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