Re: "a reference to"
Re: "a reference to"
- Subject: Re: "a reference to"
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:23:04 -0800
At 7:57 PM -0700 1/6/08, Doug McNutt wrote:
>The difficulty is that Applescript, in its infinite wisdom, considers pointers to be something that must be hidden from users. Well, at a minimum, a different syntax will have to be invented just to confuse everyone who knows the slightest bit about passing an address of a data block to a subroutine..
AppleScript, like most sensible programs, knows you shouldn't pass pointers out of your process, that's why it uses object specifiers which can survive both out of process experiences and reincarnation cycles.
Jon
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