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Re: booleans...


  • Subject: Re: booleans...
  • From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:36:09 -0700

On Mar 19, 2018, at 09:29 PM, Jean-Christophe
>  <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>>
> wrote:
>
> Obviously this:
>
> on myBoolean(myExpression)
>       try
>               myExpression
>               return true as boolean
>       on error
>               return false as boolean
>       end try
> end myBoolean
>
> doesn't work, since the error is caught before sending myExpression to
> myBoolean and I still end up with an error instead of FALSE...

But this does work:

on myBoolean(myExpression)
        try
                myExpression
                set succeeded to true
        on error
                set succeeded to false
        end try
        return succeeded
end myBoolean

Stan C.
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