Re: File best practice questions
Re: File best practice questions
- Subject: Re: File best practice questions
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:53:43 -0400
I would just like to add that "file" and "posix file" are effectively
the same class, differing only in the way the specifier string is
parsed. Behind the scenes I think "file" turns into a fileref and
posix file turns into a url, but that distinction is mostly invisible
to AS. In fact, if the specifier string for "POSIX file" is a
literal, it will get translated to "file" form by Script Editor at
compile time.
Which transformarion might yield something that wouldn't actually
compile if you typed it yourself, but that's a separate issue.
On 3/14/08, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 15/3/08 11:07 AM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I see your semantic point
>
> It's not a semantic point -- it's a serious and important distinction: what
> compiles and what runs are two totally different things.
>
> > On your specific point, I can't get a "bad alias" to compile, OMM (x.5.2)
>
> So this won't compile?
>
> alias "blah:blah:"
>
> > Anyway, for purposes of running a script, 'alias "..."' must exist. (And
> > that's completely logical for what an alias is!)
>
> Right.
>
> > But, it's fine, in my opinion, to allow code that uses 'alias "..."' to
> > *compile* but still fail at *execute* if it's not there. A developer
> should
> > be able to write a script, intended for another end user (who does have
> such
> > alias).
>
> A scripter always could, by using a variable for the path. In 10.5 they no
> longer have to, for better or worse.
>
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> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
>
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