Re: Is this a major bug or not?
Re: Is this a major bug or not?
- Subject: Re: Is this a major bug or not?
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:17:42 -0700
On 2009-05-31, at 18:41:06, Deivy Petrescu wrote:
However, and this is the problem that really brought this whole
imbroglio is that if one writes
tell app "MyApp" to tell its first element to set p to its properties
"p" should be a record accessible anywhere in the script. And it is
not.
Does that bother anyone else?
Even if there was:
outer class of p
--> record
I think it would not be logically correct. Michelle's previous remark
about 'items 2 thru (the end) of list' showed up the 'the' anomaly. I
believe Deivy's illustration above shows up that records should never
have been addressable in the forms AppleScript uses. Instead, they
should be key/value pairs which, just to add insult to injury, is how
they are actually used in AppleEvents. Every anomaly that creeps in
winds up to be a problem for both users and implementors.
Shane Stanley wrote:
It's annoying, and it would be nice to see a better solution -- but
calling it a bug is not really going to help, I suspect.
Alas, this statement has a ring of truth to it. After 17+ years, and
a lot of scripts relying on the current behavior, there's not much
chance of a fix. However, if there was a new container such as
'dictionary' which offered the same facilities but with an unambiguous
syntax, I'd see it as a good move.
Philip Aker
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