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Re: ScriptEditor thinks my command is a variable

Subject: Re: ScriptEditor thinks my command is a variable
From: Steve Evangelou <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:28:24 -0700

"Scripting Interface Guidelines" contains a list of AppleScript's reserved words:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2106.html

"AppleScript Terminology and Apple Event Codes Reference" lists many scripting terms that are currently in use, along with their four- character codes:

http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/AppleScript/ ASTerminology_AppleEventCodes/TermsAndCodes.html

Steve

On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Lee Ann Rucker wrote:

The three obviousities are:
- IIRC 'start' is already used for the first item of a collection
("set insertion mark to start of first paragraph"). AppleScript is
chronically incapable of resolving ambiguous terms correctly.


I did try giving it a different name that was unlikely to be used
elsewhere but that didn't help. Though what would help would be a
simple list somewhere in the doc of words that, if not actually
reserved, are inadvisable to use.


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