Re: What makes AppleScript difficult
Re: What makes AppleScript difficult
- Subject: Re: What makes AppleScript difficult
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:55:17 -0500
Well-trod territory, this. As a datatype, records are fundamentally distinct from associative arrays (dictionaries/hashes/maps), as lists are distinct from plain arrays. The distinction has been somewhat blurred since many modern scripting languages have only the latter element of each of those pairs (or, as in the case of _javascript_ and PHP, only associative arrays), used to implement/simulate the former. While Apple could add functionality to Applescript to do the reverse, treating records as associative arrays and lists as arrays, I'd rather see distinct types introduced with all the functionality implied thereby - and easy casting between, of course.
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