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Re: Modifying incoming mail subject


  • Subject: Re: Modifying incoming mail subject
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:03:23 +0000

On 27 Dec 2007, at 17:33, Michaël Grünewald wrote:

Tip: always ensure local variable names are different to application-defined keywords; syntax highlighting should help you tell the difference.

Thank you for that tip, this was a quite silly error ... I regret I did not get a sensible warning about his!

Don't worry, you're far from the first to be tripped up by AppleScript's arbitrarily extensible grammar.



By the way, is there any facility in the script editor that can help one to spot its mistake (e.g. a list of variables used in a script can let one spot spelling errors)?

Syntax highlighting - as I already mentioned - is the first defence: by default, language-defined keywords, application-defined keywords and user-defined identifiers are red, blue and green respectively.



Thanks for these valuable information, I should pay much attention to ruby in the following days. My bet is that Ruby is easier to learn than Applescript

If you're familiar with other OO languages, Python or Ruby should be easy enough to pick up. e.g. Took me about a week to get comfortable with the basics, and I'm a slow learner.


With regard to using them to control 'AppleScriptable' applications, that's something you still have to approach on its own terms, of course; bugs, quirks and chronic under-documentation included. And bear in mind that those communities don't have anything like as much domain-specific knowledge or experience as the AppleScript community has, so you'll still need to dip into the latter world. But at least it'll let you avoid the more painful shortcomings of the AppleScript language itself.


(I have basics in many computer languages, but Applescript is quite disturbing --- or the guidebook quite unclear.)

The AppleScript language is actually rather simple at heart - the problem is all the magic slopped on top to give it its "friendly" appearance badly obfuscates its actual mechanics; hence its reputation as the anti-Perl, or "read-only" language.



Back to the problem of modifying incoming emails, my script is still not working. To get more clues I have put a few SAY orders in the script:


Oh, tsk. Think I'll leave others more familiar with the finer details of Mail scripting to field this one...

has
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