Editing AppleScript (section)

===Typing===
Variables are not strictly typed, and do not need to be declared. Variables can take any data type (including scripts and functions). For example:

<syntaxhighlight lang="AppleScript" line>
-- create an integer variable called variable1
set variable1 to 1

-- create a text variable called variable2
set variable2 to "Hello" 

-- create a list variable called variable3
copy {17, "doubleday"} to variable3 

-- copy the list items of variable3 into separate variables variable4 and variable5
set {variable4, variable5} to variable3 

-- set a variable to an instance of a script
set variable6 to script myScript
</syntaxhighlight>