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Re: Handlers in a variable
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Re: Handlers in a variable


  • Subject: Re: Handlers in a variable
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:37:27 +1100

On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:25 PM, has <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Meantime, if users want fancy language features like closures and generators and coroutines and the rest, there's at least a dozen other polished, robust, popular languages out there that provide all this stuff; no need to turn AppleScript into another C++ just to satisfy some abstract "need" that 99% of AppleScripters will never know nor care about. Honestly, AS has had script objects (a powerful feature) since it was released, and look at how many ASers ever use those for OOP, callbacks, remote code execution, and so on. If it weren't for ASOC making them somewhat relevant to ordinary ASers, they wouldn't use them at all.

Dare I say it, +1.

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


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