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Re: when to use "copy" vs "set" [was Re: Manipulating text]
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Re: when to use "copy" vs "set" [was Re: Manipulating text]


  • Subject: Re: when to use "copy" vs "set" [was Re: Manipulating text]
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:37:02 -0600

At 17:54 +0100 9/26/09, has wrote:

And gee. Shouldn't that be written?

SNIP
>Note, however, that from the AppleScript user's point of view, all of  this is - or should be - *completely irrelevant*. Indeed, if you have  to explain this to AS users, then there is something deeply defective  in the design of the language, which is supposed to hide all this  complicated low-level gubbins from users for a reason. Otherwise,  what's the point of using a high-level language like AS instead of low- level C in the first place?
SNIP

The *completely irrelevant* used above makes me think of an easy fix:

What if the script editor automatically placed an asterisk in front of users' names for things that are really references to an object? (And is the term reference really something else?)

There are a few of us who would think back to  C or perhaps B. Others would wonder why and be shoved into a learning experience.

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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through.
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