ANOTHER bug in remote apple events..

[Matt Johnston]

On 6 Apr 2007, at 15:58, Jim Witte wrote:

>>>  This is progress? !!
>> This isn't a bug.
>> This is legacy.
>
>   Yeah - great answer - which also explains much of the Windows API  
> (and Mac pre-OSX, and maybe even Carbon)

AppleScript uses :. That's the way it. It's as least as arbitrary as  
using /
>> Why, do you have a special lurve for the /?
>
>   Not especially, I was just expecting the delimiter to be what it  
> is in *NIX programming (Terminal and shell/Perl in OSX)  Although  
> it must convert characters, as I think I can put slashes in names  
> (or it just escapes them with //)

It is that delimiter.

>   Good thing we don't have to deal with the BACK-slash of DOS too  
> (although it could be hidden at the file-system layer.  Any idea  
> what the delimiter in the WinFS will be (whenever that finally  
> comes out).  Or WILL there be a delimiter - or will everything be  
> flat and in some database schema.

Ah, who cares?