At 1:08 am -0600 28/2/04, Chap Harrison wrote:
Here's a language that thinks (to name but one flaw) that zero or one things can't comprise a list of things.
Without wishing to make too ardent a defence of AppleScript, I would say that a little experience will show that it's not quite as stupid as you propose. As to Filemaker, I'm delighted to say I've no inclination to examine its doubtful assets.
set ls to "" as list repeat with i in ls beep end repeat
set ls to {}
repeat with i in ls
beep
end repeat