Re: [MacPerl] Q/Sug: Calling MacPerl from AppleScript

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

"Michael Schuerig" <uzs90z@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>I've been toying around with the MacPerl OSA component to find a way to use
>Perl from within a FaceSpan application. I haven't found a way yet.

Might be due to Perl bugs. I've been in contact with the kind FaceSpan folks
and will do some tests "soon".

>The most elegant solution would be to save the Perl stuff as a compiled
>script and later call it with "run script sc with parameters {...}".
>Apparently this isn't possible yet -- or am I missing something?

Why shouldn't it be possible? Compiled scripts are not particularly compiled,
but they certainly should work. Regarding the run, I'll have to test it.

>Also, it would be great if arguments and return values were automagically
>converted: lists <-> arrays, records <-> assoc arrays, aliases/file specs
><-> paths, ...

I'm not convinced if this should be magicked. Perl has pretty good manipulation
functions for AppleEvents anyway.

Matthias

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