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Re: uneditable [OT]
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Re: uneditable [OT]


  • Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 19:58:35 -0500

Hey Barry,

On May 02, 2013, at 17:43, Barry Wainwright <email@hidden> wrote:
It would be SOOO nice, now that we have passed the mid '90s, if AppleScript would actually be able to handle something that commonplace and if we could replace the "to" in an assignment with =.

Noooo! Please don't do that. It is too ambiguous - are you using it as a assignment, or an equality test?

:)

I agree with Alex, but I'm sure Apple won't change a thing — too many scripts in the wild would break.

If they have to change things, I hope they use, like some other languages, a double equality sign:

I do completely understand your objections and other points though.

I've always thought

  set _str to "some string"

Was grotesquely verbose and much harder to read than:

  _str = "some string"

One of the things I appreciate about Perl as I'm learning it is that they actually considered how many keystrokes it would take to do a certain task.

--
Best Regards,
Chris

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