Re: A date IS a date
Re: A date IS a date
- Subject: Re: A date IS a date
- From: Jason Bruce <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:28:35 -0800 (PST)
Mark J. Reed wrote:
Given that the correct choice of attribute or whatever
can't be made
until runtime, it seems like the design flaw lies in
allowing the same
English word to compile to different things in
different contexts.
Seems like it'd be easier to just pass strings around
at runtime.
It's probably too slow to pass around strings like
that at run time. If you look at Self,
http://research.sun.com/self/, you'll see that it does
a lot of stuff at compile time to speed up execution
times. I'm assuming AppleScript does the same thing.
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