Re: uneditable [OT]
Re: uneditable [OT]
- Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 14:01:09 +0200
I really wonder what '1 returning x' ticks :-)
Best,
Emmanuel
On May 7, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
> Alex Zavatone wrote on Mon, 06 May 2013 23:07:33 -0400:
>
>> I don't know what problems you have with understanding the complexities
> of
>> x = 1, but I value my time, and I don't want to waste it being
> needlessly
>> verbose, when the shorter form is just as easily understandable to
> anyone
>> who has taken and passed grade school math.
>
> You could probably save a lot of time by not posting pointless polemics
> to mailing lists. ;)
>
> AppleScript was designed to be "English-like" (US-English-like, at any
> rate) and, originally, a few other-likes. It was aimed at Mac owners who
> may not necessarily have programming experience but who want to put
> together automation sequences for things they do regularly on their
> computers. (It predates Automator by several years.) For these purposes,
> 'set x to 1' ticks all the boxes. 'x = 1' ticks none of them.
>
> It shouldn't be beyond those gifted with the power of scripting to write
> scripts which expand their preferred forms of terseness to actual
> AppleScript code, leaving them free to worry about other things.
>
> NG
>
>
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