Re: booleans...
Re: booleans...
- Subject: Re: booleans...
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:40:16 +0900
> On Mar 20, 2018, at 13:31, Stan Cleveland <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Is there a trick to have an error be coerced into a FALSE boolean ?
>>
>> I don't mind using try/on error but code would be so much cleaner with any
>> expression result could be coerced into a boolean... Any idea ?
>
> Hi Jean-Christophe,
>
> How about something like this?
>
> try
> "foo" as integer
> set succeeded to true
> on error
> set succeeded to false
> end try
>
> Stan C.
That doesn't work for any value of foo.
In this particular case (but in others I had other expressions) I'm trying to
find whether a file exists or not by using the "alias" trick, and I'd like to
use an OR clause between files existence tests.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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