Re: [Fwd: Re: [Gsg0-devel] [dev] Scripting Language - Draft]

[Tim C. <tf...@le...>]

Matt Casey <mr...@Le...> wrote:
> Ok, a few reactions:
> Can you declare variables, if so, how?  For example if I have a global > 'x', the only way I can override it in a function is to have x be the 
> name of a parameter.

Not true; take my example below:

function dostuff(y, z)
x = 5
print x * 5 # Prints 25
end function
x = 10
dostuff(5, 10)

Or were you saying that that is the way you'd like it to be?  Not totally sure here.

> There should be a warning if you ever read an uninitialized variable 
> before setting it.

Okay, sure.

> Some operators that I think you implied are included: ++ and --, <, >, > <=, >=, != or <>.

Yeah, I forgot about them and I do want them.

> Since there is no type for variables, concatenation should be an 
> operator (either '.' or '&', I think)

I support '.', personally.

> Strings are built with "", I assume.

Good assumption.

> Is there any support for arrays or vectors of any sort?

Interesting question: I think I want vectors, but I'm not sure how to impliment it yet so I'm going to plead the 5th for the moment.  I'll get back to it later.

> How are comments made?

Comments are preceded with # (is this okay?) and can be at the start of a line or at the end of one.

> Also, I think it should be possible to attach a string to each
> function describing it, so that in the console, you could do 'lsfunc'
> or something, and get:
> function1() - Does xyz
> function2() - Does abc
> I think it would be a neat thing to add (and optional, of course).

Yeah, sure, I like this well enough.. maybe it looks for the line of comments immedietly preceding the function definition or something, but we can work that out.

> We need to figure out how we're going to do events or callbacks, 
> because there might be some naming conflicts between functions and > variables.

Well, I have a good idea on how I want to impliment this, but I'm really too tired to do it now; I'll write an e-mail about -that- tomorrow too.

-- 
Tim Cunningham

"I'm not claiming to be deep, I'm claiming to do it for fun." - Linus Torvalds