Cocoa Scripting: Returning the cloned objects from a “duplicate” command

Question

The AppleScript duplicate command is supposed to return the copied objects.

And while apps using the original AE-based functions seem to do that, apps based

Answer 1

Thomas, I'm not sure if it was a typo, but I'm not seeing an "at" parameter for the duplicate command in the Standard Suite:

There is also no element, so the command should not return any value or values, by definition. Am I missing something?