> Or consider this line: "New Archive Pathname archName" Who the @#@*&*!
> taught you to capitalize? Those Of Us Who Write Proper English Don't
> Capitalize Like This.
Anthony,
my bet is that the author of the AppleScript dictionary of your
application (StuffIt?) capitalized the tokens this way.
> And God forbid I try and recapitalize a variable. It changes it back!
> Who the f**k gave you the duty to undo my fixes to my own code?!?!!!
That's the trouble with code that is saved in tokenized form and then
re-generated based on dictionary names and tokens. Horrible but
memory-efficient.
>I feel much better now.
You can't imagine how glad we all are. Honestly, I have never enjoyed
writing AppleScripts. When one works, I'm happy and I enjoy that everything
works, but the worst case I had was when I had a number (from a date) and
wanted to have a leading zero in it. No problem with HyperTalk's put before
and length statements, but strangely enough, AS wouldn't recognize the
month numbers and day numbers as constants. I had to write 9 "if"
statements to ask for every single one of them ARRRGH!
>Yep. Recently, it's been happening in Linux-World.
True, but they'll still have a long way to go until they have caught up
with the MacOS. But the way Apple are doing at the moment, I hope they'll
be here fast.
>Hmmm... definitely something that should be addressed in the interpreter.
I don't think we should have "include". We should stay with "insert
script". It's much better structured and uses HyperCard's message-passing
hierarchy. Scott Raney and I have discussed include several times, but
besides being unable to come up with a comprehensible name ("include"
really says nothing, does it?), it'd be an implementation nightmare. And
people will have problems understanding it.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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