Recent changes to Derivatives

Derivatives modified by Will Pittenger

Will Pittenger — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:12:04 -0000

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 Global procedures and properties | ✗ | ✓
 Can undeclare global objects | ✗ | ✓
 Creates binary executables | ✓ | ✗ 
+Typing system | Statically-typed—Any member you reference is checked at compile time to ensure it's a valid member of the type | Dynamically-typed—DASIL waits until runtime to check that the members you reference really are members.  A special Error maybe thrown if it doesn't.

 Calling code in one derivative from the other
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Derivatives modified by Will Pittenger

Will Pittenger — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:40:55 -0000

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 MyNamespace@MyScript
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-For how to pass parameters, see the section [DASIL](Derivatives-DASIL).
+For how to pass parameters, see the section [DASIL](Derivatives-DASIL).  To call something in the class from the script, just treat the class like you would from any other ASIL code.

Derivatives modified by Will Pittenger

Will Pittenger — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:39:58 -0000

Overview
Calling code in one derivative from the other

Overview

You will never actually write ASIL code. Rather, you'd use either of one two derivatives. If you're expecting to compile your code into binaries, you'd probably want SASIL. It's more like C# or Java. If you want to script something, DASIL would be a better choice. Below is a brief comparison. For details on both, see the page on each.

Feature	SASIL	DASIL
File extension	.sasil	.dasil
Global code	✗	✓
Global variables	✗	✓
Global procedures and properties	✗	✓
Can undeclare global objects	✗	✓
Creates binary executables	✓	✗

Calling code in one derivative from the other

Both derivatives are very interchangeable. Suppose the namespace "MyNamespace" has a class called "MyClass". It also has a script using the ASIL identifier "MyScript". You'd call the script (as a whole) with this code in the class:

MyNamespace@MyScript

For how to pass parameters, see the section DASIL.