Zugg Software :: View topic - [1.34] #VAR, local variables, and data records

Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 44

Here's code that works:

#VAR possAffDB.%i 1

Here's code that doesn't work:

#VAR possAffDB.$aff 1

Using local variables instead of a regular wildcard somehow changes my data record into an autotyped array. I was able to use #addkey successfully with data records and local variables, so my problem is fixed for now, but this seems like a bug.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:17 pm

I don't know whether it's me that's on an implicit concat trip today or if it's everyone else, but this is another example of it, I think.

#var %concat("possAffDB.",$aff) 1

is working fine for me.

If you're using this for what I think you are (a database variable where keys are afflictions you have, or might have, and values are irrelevant) you might find it easier, at least for now, to use a string list. Database variables are currently implemented in exactly the same way as string lists and are no faster. This might change in the future when CMUD includes Lua scripting, since Lua tables use hashing, but for now it's no better and leads to problems like this one.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:20 pm

Concat is a great feature, but if not using it results in a bug then shouldn't that be taken note of? Just a thought.
Twisted Evil

at Fang,

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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:25 pm

Sometimes :P But Zugg has said in the past that for CMUD to compile scripts, it needs to be a bit more strict about syntax. One of the things that CMUD doesn't do like zMUD is this sort of implicit concatenation - I guess it's just because you haven't told the compiler what you want it to do and it's left guessing.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:27 pm

Makes perfect sense. I don't want the compiler left guessing when it's compiling my scripts, thanks for the advice, Fang.

Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 44

This is not concat - this is another way to access entries in data records.

@dataRecord.keyname

I use %concat to concat.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:18 pm

%concat will work in this situation though. It is a very useful function.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:10 pm

Novice Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 44

Ah, I think I understand. Thanks for the help.

I've never used #VAR ($aff) before - what is the difference?

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:48 pm

It's just a different way of doing the same exact thing, my friend.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:49 pm

Matt's explanation's exactly right - I've never used it that way with #var but it makes a difference to #addkey and #additem. Without brackets adds an item to the local variable itself.