Convert to quoted form for use in osascript

Script Debugger Feature Requests
#1

It would be super nice to have a function that converts a multiline script into a proper “-e” prefixed form for use with osascript on the command line…

#2

Do you find that the heredoc pattern circumvents that need with AS ?

(It generally does with JS)

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#3

e.g.

osascript -l AppleScript <<AS_END 2>/dev/null
-- unlines :: [String] -> String
on unlines(xs)
    -- A single string formed by the intercalation
    -- of a list of strings with the newline character.
    set {dlm, my text item delimiters} to ¬
        {my text item delimiters, linefeed}
    set s to xs as text
    set my text item delimiters to dlm
    s
end unlines

unlines({"Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma"})
AS_END
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