{"id":655,"date":"2003-09-21T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-21T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=655"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"applescript_whose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/21\/applescript_whose\/","title":{"rendered":"AppleScript Whose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/09\/applescript_whose_clauses.html\">John Gruber<\/a> writes about the AppleScript <code>whose<\/code> clause, which add a kind of declarative filtering to AppleScript. <code>whose<\/code> is great in simple situations, but it <a href=\"http:\/\/earthlingsoft.net\/ssp\/blog\/2003\/09\/20\/whose\">doesn&rsquo;t scale<\/a>. The more interesting point: why do so many languages force you to use temporary lists and loops just to filter a list? It&rsquo;s sad, really.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber writes about the AppleScript whose clause, which add a kind of declarative filtering to AppleScript. whose is great in simple situations, but it doesn&rsquo;t scale. The more interesting point: why do so many languages force you to use temporary lists and loops just to filter a list? It&rsquo;s sad, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}