Re: [MacPerl] AE & FMP

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 21.04 1998.03.23, <darrylc@foothills.eznet.com> wrote:
>Cool. 'TEXT(\@)', huh. Why and where can i learn more about this
>convention?

Why?  I think it is the AEGizmo stuff.  I think those are documented
somewhere on Apple's site.  And actually, it is not 'TEXT(\@)', it is
"TEXT(\@)" or 'TEXT(@)', for reasons the astute observer can gather for
themselves.  :)

Another special case is alis(@@).  In both cases, it is sorta like using
printf().  TEXT(@) says "a text argument follows", and alis(@@) says "a
file alias follows".

The "why" I think is so it is easy to embed the info.  For text, for
example, there are only two other ways to do it.  One is to embed it with
рс, which is unsafe.  The other is to make an extra call to add a parameter
of type TEXT, which is an extra step, and we don't want to make an extra
step.

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