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Re: Records


  • Subject: Re: Records
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:02:34 -0500

On 11/3/05, Christopher Nebel <email@hidden> wrote:
 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.

Never let it be said that I let a little thing like lack of utility get in the way of knowledge acquisition! :)  I would be quite interested in the long version. 

It seems like discarding the pipes runs the risk of the semantics of a script changing if it's decompiled and recompiled in an environment different from that in which it was originally written...



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