Re: "a reference to"
Re: "a reference to"
- Subject: Re: "a reference to"
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:50:25 -0500
- Thread-topic: "a reference to"
"deivy petrescu" wrote:
> I assume that "get" came together with cocoa or OS X. I am sure that
> in 9.xx and earlier I have not used get. Or I've used it sparingly. I
> do not recall "somethingelse of (get something)" before X, but can
> assure you that in X it became "get somethingelse of (get something)"
I am not up to speed on the inner workings of, well, anything, frankly, but
in Smile, even before OSX, it has been needed to use "get" quite regularly.
If my memory serves, it was explained to me that Smile's retention of the
global context (remembering variables across script windows, and even across
launches if the user does that intentionally) had something to do with this
need.
Perhaps Smile's interaction with AS at some lower level made it necessary to
"expose" this need at the higher scripting level.
All of that to say that I don't think this need to use an explicit 'get'
came with OSX, but perhaps OSX did change silent dereferencing in some way.
<shrug>
(And perhaps Emmanuel can tell us something about why Smile has, for some
time, needed explicit 'get' statements more than, say, Script Editor.)
--
Gary
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