RE: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 594
RE: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 594
- Subject: RE: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 594
- From: "Scott Babcock" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:59:45 -0700
- Thread-topic: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 594
Maybe it's so you can write a comment like this...
(*
Without quotes, "*)" ends a block comment
*)
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:28:05 -0700
> From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Missing values and Script Editor request
> To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
>
> > I can't refrain from wondering what an optimal "order of
> > operations" should be when you must extract strings which may
> > contain the comment's delimiter, and comments which may contain the
> > string's delimiter.
> >
> > Our company wrote a small compiler for a language of ours, and we
> > made the same choice as AppleScript: forbidding single double-
> > quotes in a comment rather than limiting what a string may contain.
>
> Triple quotes won't work. The following generates the same error.
>
> (*
> this is a """ test.
> *)
>
> This will work, though:
>
> (*
> this is a "\"" testi.
> *)
>
> But this won't:
>
> (*
> this is a \" test.
> *)
>
>
> -- Michelle
>
> --
> "Beware the march of ideas."
>
>
>
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> Message: 23
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:56:45 -0700
> From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
> Subject: system events and folder actions enabling
> To: <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <BF45C96D.E53C%email@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> Someone here said (sorry, I can't find the original message) that in
> Tiger,
> System Events is always running. I don't find this to be so. On a
> completely
> clean startup, System Events is not running. When you enable folder
> actions,
> System Events is added to your login items; when you disable it, it is
> removed from your login items. This is the same fragile mechanism used
in
> Panther. m.
>
> --
> matt neuburg, phd = email@hidden, <http://www.tidbits.com/matt/>
> A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool!
> AppleScript: the Definitive Guide
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005571/somethingsbymatt>
>
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