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Re: Checking on the existence of a file
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Re: Checking on the existence of a file


  • Subject: Re: Checking on the existence of a file
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:24:50 +1100

On 04/12/2012, at 8:14 PM, Harald E Brandt <email@hidden> wrote:

> Likewise, the omission of parentheses on those parameterless methods will also yield NSNumbers

I think leaving off the parentheses is roughly equivalent to using key-value coding -- like using 'valueForKey_("isAbsolutePath")' or 'valueForKey_("absolutePath")'. But again, that doesn't explain the class difference.

> I actually think that it would have been much better to not even allow omission of those parentheses, since you never know what a future version of OS X might do with that syntax.

If it is a KVO thing, be careful what you wish for...

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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