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Re: Informal poll


  • Subject: Re: Informal poll
  • From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:33:13 +0200

On Jun 17, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Nigel Garvey wrote:

>> * If you were to be granted one AppleScript-related wish, what would it
> be?
>
> Do you mean For what would I be careful to wish?  ;)  I'd love the core
> language itself to have a bit more power, so that it wouldn't be as
> necessary to switch to the latest gee-whiz alternative(s).

I find this a very reasonable wish and I would like to second it. It's a pity we have to write tenths of lines - or use libraries or osaxen - because the core AppleScript is so poor.

Think about javascript's built-in stuff... Operations on arrays, on strings, on associative arrays... Regular expressions... The Date and Math objects...

More built-in power might help our language look more modern and seduce more users.

Emmanuel
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