Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
- Subject: Re: linebreak in a shell script; was Re: What's wrong with this call to zip?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:27:57 -0800
On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Ah, but an AppleScript programmer is not an end user. An
Applescript programmer is, in fact, a programmer, who belongs on the
other end of that transaction. There's a difference between a user
asking for the length of a word and a programmer trying to extract
substrings to do text manipulation.
The "programmer" vs. "user" distinction is not binary; there are
different presumed levels of expertise (and interest in being an
expert) even among programmers. We changed AppleScript's "character"
definition to mean "Unicode grapheme cluster" because people kept
complaining that "character" didn't work the way they expected.
Telling them that they can have the behavior they want, but that they
have to use a new "grapheme cluster" element instead would have been,
in my opinion, the wrong answer.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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