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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 13, Issue 283
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Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 13, Issue 283


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 13, Issue 283
  • From: Mitchell L Model <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:52:48 -0400

> On Jun 28, 2016 ,Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> What I don’t get is how strings could be “in the language”, however crudely, but be eliminated by the use of scripting additions.
>
> Let's back up a little. In the beginning, text and string were synonyms for the class. When Unicode was introduced, along with Unicode text, they diverged for a while, but when AppleScript became Unicode-only, they again became synonyms for the same class.
>
> Anyway, for this particular problem the answer is to not go hoarding old scripting additions. If you don't use them, throw them out, or at least move them somewhere else. But if you can't bring yourself to do that, use text (outside InDesign).
>
I meant literally “scripting additions” as in
	use scripting additions
at the beginning of the file to get back the standard vocabulary, such as “display alert”. I realize there are all sorts of complications in hoarding old scripting additions, because I tend to do just that :-). But I tested my example with all my hoarded additions moved out of the way. Without “use", text and string are synonymous; with “use”, “string” is not recognized.



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