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Guinn
Wizard
Joined: 03 Mar 2001
Posts: 1127
Location: London
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:55 pm
[1.30] invalid local variable: asd
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At the command input
#say $asd
results in
invalid local variable: asd
Which is correct, as there is no local variable $asd when entered by itself at command input - but maybe CMUD could be smarter about detecting that I wanted to send a dollar sign in this instance? |
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hogarius
Adept
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Posts: 221
Location: islands.genesismuds.org
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:12 pm
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Guinn, I have to disagree with you on this one.
Consider the following:
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| $asd=x+y+z;#say $asd |
In this case, you'd likely want the value of the local variable $asd generated on the screen.
I understand you have a case where the #say command is the only command input, but I'm not convinced that's enough of an exception to make Zugg make the parser work in a more convulted fashion.
I would suggest sometimes we have to be smart enough to remember that if we want to #SAY literal text, especially including words that begin with punctuation, that we enclose the text in quotes.
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Zugg
MASTER
Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:13 pm
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Hogarius is correct...I'd like to see people start using quotes more consistently, just like you have to with other programming languages. Or at least realize that $ is now a "special character" and might need to be escaped, just like with # or ; or other special characters.
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