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Re: Copy to list Question


  • Subject: Re: Copy to list Question
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:47:56 -0400

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
> You are trying to dynamically create variable names at runtime- that's
> code generation, and it is slow and error-prone, especially in
> AppleScript.

It also won't let you do what you're trying to do, since dynamically
created programs via 'run script "string"' run in an entirely separate
instance of the AppleScript interpreter which has no access to
variables in the outer script.

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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 >Re: Copy to list Question (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)

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