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  • Subject: Re: Considering case...
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:59:25 +1100

On 23 Feb 2014, at 7:02 am, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:

> I've never seen this documented or discussed before, and I don't know what the reason for designing it this way was.

I doubt that it was designed at all in the sense of being a separate AppleScript function -- it's just returning what the underlying Cocoa string methods (compare: and caseInsensitiveCompare:) return. Can you think of any app or part of the OS that doesn't use lexical sorting?

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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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