At 12:55 AM -0700 9/8/2004, Jan Schenkel wrote:Allow me to agree wiht you in priciple but propose sightly diferent contents : - MacOS : the good old pre-OS X thing - MacOS Classic : the compatibility environment - MacOS X : the operating system of the future - ...
This way, if you want to check for something that can happen on a Mac, regardless of the OS version (such as the use of an AppleScript), all you have to do is : if the platform contains "MacOS" then ...
Good point. I agree.
(Although now I'm wondering whether there should be a separate OS function, with the "platform" becoming simplified -- Mac, Windows, or Unix -- and the "OS" being more specific, e.g. "OSX" or "Classic" or "MacOS", "Win95" or "Win2000" or "WinXP", or the various Unix flavors, etc. Stop me before I rewrite syntax again! ;-)
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Hmm, that is quite an interesting proposal to add a new function instead of overloading the platform. A big plus: the current meaning of platform is unchanged, so there is no backwards compatibility issues. And it affords the most direct way of checking.
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