Bugs in the Satimage.osax?

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#1

Hello All -

I seem to have found a bug in the Satimage.osax v3.6.1 uppercase() and lowercase() routines. For me,

return uppercase ("a") & "bcdefg"

returns “ABCDEFG”

and

return lowercase ("A") & "BCDEFG"

returns “abcdefg”

Not what I’d expect.

…Mick

Model: MacBook Pro 17"
AppleScript: 2.1.2
Browser: Firefox 20.0
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.6)

#2

Hi,

it’s not a bug. The parentheses around one character have no effect.
First the two literal strings are concatenated then the change case operation is performed

you probably expect


return (uppercase "a") & "bcdefg"
#3

Hi Stefan -

Still seems like a bug :slight_smile: but now that I know how it works, I’ll adapt. It does explain the odd parens the editor threw in my code on occasion, however.

Are there rules somewhere on parens and sub-routines? When I write my own, I need them.

…Mick

#4

It’s just a basic rule.

Compound argument expressions are evaluated before executing the command.
Parentheses are preferred.


display dialog ("A") & "BCDEF" --> "ABCDEF"