Re: Informal poll
Re: Informal poll
- Subject: Re: Informal poll
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:49:22 +0200
I confirm, here again ECMA makes a better job than Apple, look:
callJavaScript (make new javascript) script "'Javascript: pi = ' + Math.PI"
-- "Javascript: pi = 3.141592653589793"
"AppleScript: pi = " & pi
-- "AppleScript: pi = 3.14159265359"
16 vs 12 digits.
Best,
Emmanuel
On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Paul Fidler wrote:
> Whilst we are on the subject of maths, how about the handling of numbers greater than 8 significant places rather than scientific notation?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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