Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl AS dictionary

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

"Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@postoffice.sells.com> writes:
>At 4:32 AM -0400 8/29/98, Charles Albrecht wrote:
>>I would think a simple AppleScript like:
>>
>>tell application "MacPerl"
>>    activate
>>    make new document
>>    set Spot 1 of document 1 to "#!/usr/bin/perl
>>"
>>end tell
>
>So, that leaves me wondering - what's a Spot?

A good question, indeed. In my defense, I'd like to offer that I borrowed most
of my AppleEvent and terminology code straight from an Apple sample program
that seemed to have been written very early in the life cycle of AppleScript.

I would certainly agree that the terminology is bad, but I'd prefer to leave it
alone until I do a real rewrite of the frontend.

>It appears from the script being presented that he means an insertion
>point, or something like it.  It seems also from the dictionary that one
>could write qq{ set Line 1 of document 1 to "#!/usr/bin/perl"}.

Yes, that should work, too.

>And I suspect that a number of frequenters of the AppleScript implementer's
>list might have opinions about "Spot" as a class name.

Hehe.

Matthias

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