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Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
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Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)


  • Subject: Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access)
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:14:22 -0800

On 2008-12-02, at 20:51:03, Chris Page wrote:

It is an accident of history that scripting additions enable arbitrary programs to respond to events they were not explicitly designed to support.

The historical tragedy will be if modern AppleScript doesn't address the problem.

set provider_list to loaded providers
--> {"com.apple.osax.standardadditions", "ca.aker.osax.metadata", "fr.satimage.osax.smile", …}

tell provider "com.apple.finder"
    tell provider "com.apple.osax.standardadditions"
        set f to open for access hfspath
        -- code hunk
     end tell
end tell

Philip Aker
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