Re: If Statements
Re: If Statements
- Subject: Re: If Statements
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:32:28 -0400
"Seems" was an accurate indicatiom of my confidence in the statement.
It seemed to be true. I hadn't done enough experimentation to
convince myself that it was universally true, nor enough reading to
convince myself that it was intended to be so. I simply prefer not to
make bald statements when I don't have stronger evidence. But I don't
see how my statement was in any way "misleading".
On 9/13/08, Axel Luttgens <email@hidden> wrote:
> Le 13 sept. 08 à 17:35, Mark J. Reed a écrit :
>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Not a bug. The comparison seems to be based on the type of the left
>> hand side of the operator.
>
> And just to be more precise: "seems" is misleading, as AppleScript
> always has coerced the right-hand operand accordingly to the type of
> the left-hand operand in the case of binary operators.
>
> For example, in the "new" ASLG, on may read about the ">" operator (p.
> 184):
>
> "Both operands must evaluate to values of the same class. If they
> don't,
> AppleScript attempts to coerce the right-hand operand to the class of
> the
> left-hand operand."
>
>
>> So (10 > "5") is true, because it converts the string to a number and
>> does a numeric comparison. But ("5" < 10) is false because it
>> converts the number to a string and does a lexicographic comparison.
>
> Yep :-)
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