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Re: New Constant Documentation


  • Subject: Re: New Constant Documentation
  • From: kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:11:25 +0100


On 15 Sep 2006, at 16:47, Gary (Lists) wrote:

"email@hidden" wrote:

[snip]

First one is the constant | where you can use | to create a variable out of
anything, even if its some other terminology.


example:

set |set| to "foobar"
return |set|

This is a widely known feature of AS (perhaps 'undocumented', but I think
the public record is documentation also; I think this is also covered in
ASTDG, but I don't have my copy at my side right now.)

Right, Gary. There's a reference to this in the ASLG section about identifiers:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/applescript/Conceptual/ AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.1a.html


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kai


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