Re: What makes AppleScript difficult
Re: What makes AppleScript difficult
- Subject: Re: What makes AppleScript difficult
- From: Skeeve <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:23:46 +0100
Gary (Lists) wrote:
You're silly. Or worse.
Yes. I am. But what's your excuse?
The consequence of that is that an AppleScript programmer has to:
a) Have to write his own handler to convert between POSIX style and OS X
style pathnames.
Er? RTFM.
So tell me what's wrong with
POSIX file of ( "/my/stupid/or/silly/" & "path" )
which does not work
compared to
( "/my/stupid/or/silly/" & "path" ) as POSIX file
adn
set a_variable to "/my/stupid/or/silly/" & "path"
POSIX file a_variable
which does
Big SORRY! Now I see! "of" makes the difference... stupid me! Forget me
complaining about this! It's jsut what others mentioned here. It's too
much english like. (And I'm not english) It's "POSIX path of ..." but
just "POSIX file ...".
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