Re: AppleScript 2.0?
Re: AppleScript 2.0?
- Subject: Re: AppleScript 2.0?
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:22:07 +0100
Ed Stockly wrote:
I always heard that when AppleScript 2 was released the text would
be fully unicode text...
Well, have a look here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#applescript
Does this mean that Leopard includes the long awaited AppleScript 2
update?
Obviously, you won't get a definite answer to this question for
another week as Leopard is still currently under NDA.
Depends on your definition of 'AppleScript 2.0', I imagine. The name
has been floating about for the last ten years, with rumours
suggesting it would be a major rethink/redesign/rewrite with
'professional' features such as a class-based object system instead
of the current prototype (script object) based. I seriously doubt
we'll ever see such a beast now given how the rest of the programming
world has moved on since 1997: professional developers wouldn't be
interested as they're already much better served by scripting
languages such as Python and Ruby, and non-professional developers
(i.e. the bulk of existing AS users) would be scared off by such
radical changes. Thus, I'm pretty certain that apart from the ability
to type Unicode characters directly in Script Editor we'll see only
minor superficial changes, with the significant changes being largely
under the hood.
That said, I would still expect Apple to increment the major version
number just to reflect the changeover to Unicode if nothing else.
Apart from being a non-trivial functional improvement for once
(although I'm sure many of AppleScript's other longstanding
deficiencies remain), such a change is unlikely to be 100% compatible
with existing scripts (i.e. anything that requires old-style
strings), in which case a major version change would definitely be
indicated.
Once could speculate endlessly between now and the 26th, of course,
but I think it'd just be a waste of time - with such a short time to
go now it'll be less time and trouble - and less potential for self-
embarrassment:) - just to sit tight and see what actually ships
before commenting further [1].
Regards,
has
[1] Forlorn hope, I know. Let endless exchanges of expert-sounding
but entirely valueless pontifications now commence... :p
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