Re: Snow Leopard AppleScript Release Notes
Re: Snow Leopard AppleScript Release Notes
- Subject: Re: Snow Leopard AppleScript Release Notes
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:38:42 +0200
On Aug 29, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:
On 29/8/09 9:15 AM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
no one has mentioned bug #1186965 yet...
I'm still trying to guess what happens when you coerce a list to text.
This whole system of item delimiters is excellent, however it may turn
confusing in some cases. Ideally (but that's personal) we should be
allowed to provide a regular expression as the item delimiter. Also,
ideally, you wouldn't need two instructions to split a text into a
list, just one verb, something like:
splittextintolist "Hello, world: salut, monde." using "(, |: )"
regular expression true
--> {"Hello", "world", "salut", "monde."}
and then of course:
jointlistintotext someList using someDelimiter
<tongueincheek>
Hope they implement that soon, so that in 2025, or even maybe 2020,
it's debug-free and usable...
</tongueincheek >
I understand that the first idea was to leverage on implicit
coercions, but that has proved to be of little help, I think.
Emmanuel
PS
In the meanwhile we use "splittext" and "join" in Smile.
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