Re: Toxic Soup and Enough for all
Re: Toxic Soup and Enough for all
- Subject: Re: Toxic Soup and Enough for all
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:31:15 -0700
On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
In AppleScript it's all over the place and unless you're a real
linguist you make mistakes because you don't remember all of the
possible single variables or commands that require an internal space.
Yeah, this used to drive me nuts. Learning the vocabulary helps a
lot, but when I encounter something new I'm never quite sure where
the command stops and the specifier starts... is it "open file",
with a pathname argument, or "open" with a file argument?
Something I'm fond of doing is changing the formatting on "application
keywords" so they're underlined. The internal spaces get underlined
as well, so you can see which words are connected. It doesn't help as
you're writing, of course, but it does let you check your work.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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