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Re: Crashing Script


  • Subject: Re: Crashing Script
  • From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:37:36 +0000 (GMT)

On Feb 12, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:

My understanding is - but no guarantee - that when we put a date in a list, we just put a reference to the variable which continue to live.
When we insert a string we really insert the group of characters as a dead item.

If you want to store the date as a date, take care of what I highlighted above and test the code edited as :
I was not really surprised because I already got this behavior in the past.

Yes, but that doesn't answer the question of *why* did Apple make this behave differently depending on if set or copy is used? It's pretty ridiculous.

Sent from iCloud's ridiculous UI, so, sorry about the formatting

 
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