Re: Informal poll
Re: Informal poll
- Subject: Re: Informal poll
- From: Paul Fidler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:36:13 -0400
Whilst we are on the subject of maths, how about the handling of numbers greater than 8 significant places rather than scientific notation?
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> On 17 Jun 2014, at 07:33, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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