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Re: AppleScript broken in 10.5.4
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Re: AppleScript broken in 10.5.4


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript broken in 10.5.4
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:18:57 -0400
  • Thread-topic: AppleScript broken in 10.5.4

On 10/2/08 11:02 AM, "Ed Stockly" <email@hidden> wrote:

>>> The following script works in 10.4.x but fails in 10.5.4.
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>>    set digitlist to every item of "0123456789"
>>
>> In fact, it is rather surprising that the above worked in 10.4.X...
>
> How is that surpising? That's worked in every version of AppleScript
> since its first release.
>
> It should return a list of {"1","2","3"...
>
> If it's not working, it's a bug.

Define "item" here. If you specify text item, it works. Intuitively, I'd
expect non-specified item to, at best, return a list with a single item,
{"0123456789"}

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