Re: [MacPerl] order of args in @ARGV? Test!

[Peter Hartmann <hartmann@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp>]

I just tested a simple case:

¥Create a droplet with the following line:

foreach (@ARGV){print $_, "\n"}

¥Open a folder in list view and alphabethical order of names, with some
items in it.
¥Select all and drop the selection on the droplet, then everything may be
in correct order.
¥Now, select the same items one at a time from the bottom to the top of the
list, drop and everything should be in reverse order.
¥So far, so good. Now unselect everything again, and do Select All from the
menu once again. On my machine (German System 8.1) everything is passed in
reverse order as long as I do not choose to select one item at a time from
top to bottom again.

Rectangular selection, on my machine, does the same as Select All.
This is only one of the weirdnesses I encountered in the past, e.g.
seemingly non-deterministic issues when passing a folder path to process
its contents by AppleScript etc.


__Peter Hartmann________

Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

e-mail:
hartmann@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp (preferred)
phv00542@askic.kic.ritsumei.ac.jp




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