Diving In

No doubt there are readers who are eager to dive into AppleScripting before they go on to this book’s upcoming language reference. This section summarizes the important AppleScript language elements you need to know before you start coding:

• Case sensitivity

• Statement termination

• Line continuation character

• Naming identifiers or variables

• Variable declaration

• Comments

• Data types

• Operators and reference forms

• Flow-control statements

• Subroutines

• Script objects and libraries

All of these language elements are described in more detail in Part II (except for case sensitivity and statement termination, which are taken care of adequately in the following sections).