Re: AppleScript 2.0?
Re: AppleScript 2.0?
- Subject: Re: AppleScript 2.0?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:29:56 -0400
Hm. Still don't see why the limit should be 15 instead of 99, but I'm
sure they had a good reason.
On 10/17/07, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/17/07 12:17 PM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/17/07, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> They're going to run out of incremental numbers
> >> some day soon (1.15 would be the highest possible, and they're up to
> 1.10.7
> >> in OS 10.4.10)
> >
> > Huh? Why do they have to stop at 1.15? What's to stop them from
> > going to 1.16, 1.17, 1.18 . . . 1.99, 1.100, 1.101, . . . ., 1.999,
> > 1.1000, ... , ad infinitum?
>
>
> See the Release Notes ("Special Notes", par 2) for AS v1.10 (came with OS
> 10.4) at
> <http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/AppleScript/RN-AppleScript/index.ht
> ml>
>
>
> "Scripts that compare version numbers by coercing the version class to a
> real number and then doing numeric comparisons will need to be changed. The
> coercion from version to real has been changed to allow the second and third
> parts of the version number to be 0..15 instead of 0..9. As a result, the
> version 1.2.3 will now coerce to the real number 1.0203. Previously, it
> would coerce to the real number 1.23."
>
>
> So, for now at any rate, the maximum "third part" is .15 max.
>
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> Paul Berkowitz
>
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