Re: a date is not a date? Or: Why I sometimes hate AppleScript...
Re: a date is not a date? Or: Why I sometimes hate AppleScript...
- Subject: Re: a date is not a date? Or: Why I sometimes hate AppleScript...
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:05:56 -0500
- Thread-topic: a date is not a date? Or: Why I sometimes hate AppleScript...
"has" wrote:
> It's like making cooking for six before you've even sent out
> the dinner invitations and have no actual idea if two, five or ten
> people will be coming.
This is a poor analogy, built on faulty logic, ta'boot.
By your own description, there is no "guessing" what "year" means:
> it [AppleScript]
> makes a best-guess about the user's intent for that word according to
> where it appears in the script: if it appears within the 'tell app
> "iTunes"' block, it gives it one meaning; if it appears outside the
> block it gives it another.
Yes, precisely. Why is that guessing? I don't get it.
There is no guess about the location, and therefore the meaning. That some
user had wished it to mean something else is solved by the education of the
user.
It's just not a guess, like you present it. That's all.
Aside from that, your general critique of the language has always seemed
informed, if a tad over zealous, or, rather, mis-aimed. I just don't think
it matters, frankly, to the AppleScript typist.
I mean, it comes off a bit like someone standing at the street corner
screaming at every car that passes by that there is a better premise for an
engine out there.
That may well be, but why are you yelling at the driver?
--
Gary
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