LavishScript Questions

[Placemate]

First are there any other options for dealing with timing other than TimedCommand and ${Time} stuff like ${Time.SecondsSinceMidnight}? What I'd love to have is a variable holding execution time of a script in tenths of a second or something similar. (Execution time of a session, etc)

Secondly just a curiousity question. How hard / any possibility of getting less rigid syntax for LavishScript flow.

Such as:

if "foo" {
Meh
} else {
Beh
}

or

if "foo" Meh

[Lax]

1. ${System.TickCount} gives you a timestamp accurate to thousandths of a second.
2. if is just a command, and so is else. { and } have to be on their own line because the parser doesn't want to know about "if" or "else", plus your example looks ugly anyway

[Placemate]

1. Perfect, thanks

2. Shrug, I like dense code, probably because I'm too lazy to scroll.

[Lax]

Aside from the parser, it's all a matter of preference/style -- so don't take that as an insult or degrading. One man's trash is another man's treasure I prefer the extra lines because it's easier to scan through the code and see where everything is coming from.

[Placemate]

Actually after spending a few hours today writing code, I released how much I hate all this macroquest legacy syntax, grin.

Everytime I have to write varcalc i ${i}+1 I die a little bit inside.

That aside how much trouble would it be to add a For..Loop, and a top check while loop? I realise your pushing for 1.0 atm, so after that maybe some options so the syntax isn't as verbose.

Just trying to give feedback, overall its shaping up to be an amazing product.

[Lax]

Too much trouble to bother implementing. The current syntax for while will be the final syntax. However, you can do this:

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declare count int 1
do
{
  echo ${count}
}
while "$&#123;count&#58;Inc&#125;<=10"

That's basically a prefixed ++ in C, like ++count<=10

Or instead of varcalc i ${i}+1, simply:

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i:Inc

[Placemate]

Just for contrast

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function CheckEvent()
{
	declare i int local
	if "!${EventsInQ}"
		return
	do
	{
		if "${System.TickCount}>${EventTime[1]}"
		{
			call ${EventFunction}
			varset i 1
			do
			{
				varset EventTime[${i}] ${EventTime[${Math.Calc[${i}+1]}]}
				varset EventFunction[${i}] ${EventFunction[${Math.Calc[${i}+1]}]}
				varcalc i ${i}+1				
			}
			while "$&#123;i&#125;<$&#123;EventsInQ&#125;"
			varcalc EventsInQ $&#123;EventsInQ&#125;-1
		&#125;
	&#125;
	while "!$&#123;EventsInQ&#125; && $&#123;System.TickCount&#125;>$&#123;EventTime[1]&#125;"
&#125;

vs.

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function CheckEvent()
{
	declare i int local
	while "!${EventsInQ} && ${System.TickCount}>${EventTime[1]}"
	{
		call ${EventFunction}
		for i = 1 to ${EventsInQ}
		{
			varset EventTime[${i}] ${EventTime[${Math.Calc[${i}+1]}]}
			varset EventFunction[${i}] ${EventFunction[${Math.Calc[${i}+1]}]}
		}
		varcalc EventsInQ ${EventsInQ}-1
	}		
}

Also does the math calc include short circuiting? I'm assuming no.

[Placemate]

Man your too quick and I can't edit. : (

Anyway I see you updated the wiki pages with methods, so I guess I'll go back to studying. Thanks for the tips.

[Lax]

Even with a for loop, it would require a beginning and an end (e.g. for..next). The difference with while is it doesnt force you to have an actual counter.

Combined with int:Inc, I think the current route is just as good if not better