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Electrk:
--- Quote from: Ben Grapevine on September 08, 2012, 02:03:59 AM ---cmdtoserver.killall(9001);
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--- Quote from: Kaphonaits² on September 08, 2012, 01:29:52 AM ---I'm going to cut you if you ever try to make programming jokes like this again.
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--- Quote from: Incinerate on September 08, 2012, 12:22:08 AM ---C++ I believe.
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--- Quote from: Kaphonaits² on September 08, 2012, 01:29:52 AM ---Wrong.
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The language is TorqueScript, which is similar to C# but is its own language.
Kaphonaits²:
--- Quote from: Electrk on September 08, 2012, 03:11:19 AM ---
The language is TorqueScript, which is similar to C# but is its own language.
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TorqueScript is correct and you really can only compare it to C-like languages because of how awkwardly stuffty it is sometimes.
So, you're trying to set the velocity of an object. You'd think a function like that would take something like three ints, three floats, or a vector3 of some sort.
Wrong! It takes a string!
--- Code: ---findclientbyname(Kaphonaits).player.addVelocity("0 0 200");
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M:
--- Quote from: Kaphonaits² on September 08, 2012, 04:20:12 AM ---TorqueScript is correct and you really can only compare it to C-like languages because of how awkwardly stuffty it is sometimes.
So, you're trying to set the velocity of an object. You'd think a function like that would take something like three ints, three floats, or a vector3 of some sort.
Wrong! It takes a string!
--- Code: ---findclientbyname(Kaphonaits).player.addVelocity("0 0 200");
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Thinking about traditional types in Torquescript is bad
Even an integer is a string
If you don't use anything that isn't alphanumeric you don't need to use quotes but it's still a string
So thinking of static types in Torquescript means you're thinking of it wrong
What you should be doing is thinking about string formats
.+ - String
\d+ - Integer (but also a string)
\d+\.\d+ - Float (but also a string)
\d+ \d+ - Vector2 (but also a string)
\d+ \d+ \d+ - Vector3 (but also a string)
If you try to call a method on a string it tries to resolve the string to an object - if it's entirely numeric, it tries as an object ID, then it tries as an object name.
In addition, trivia:
false and true, if unquoted, are 0 and 1, not "false" and "true". "true" as an explicit string is false.
A string like "24 slaves in the field" if used as a number will be 24, not 0, as anything before the first non-numeric character of the string is treated as a number (it doesn't validate the whole string to see if it actually is a number - really this means you can match a Torquescript integer as \d+.*)
Kaphonaits²:
--- Quote from: M on September 08, 2012, 04:41:28 AM ----awesomesnip-
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Yes but there are reasons that the traditional types exist.
So you don't need things like useless duplicates of operators.
--- Code: ---if(%blah $= %blergh) {
//...
}
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--- Code: ---if(%blah == %blergh) {
//...
}
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Isaac Fox:
Why, why, why are my parents forcing me to learn Python?
I want to learn TorqueScript, dammit!