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I made a post on DFS and after some discussion involving feasibility and implementation of the original suggestion, we decided on this:
New percent code: %{}
It functions as a simplification for text codes.
Any text inside of %{} behaves differently to allow for making complex equations or functions without it becoming too messy.
Rules:
- Any text by itself will be treated as a variable. (So %{a} is the same as %var(a))
- Any text surrounded in square brackets will also be treated as a variable. (So %{[%default a]} is the same as %var(%default a))
- Any text surrounded in quotes are assumed to be a string literal, and not a variable. (%{"Hello"} is Hello)
- Numbers are assumed to be numbers. (%{5} is 5)
- Any "function" text codes (Anything but %default, %selected, etc) no longer need a % sign. (So %{round(a)} is the same as %round(%var(a)))
- %math rules apply. Numbers will be operated with +, -, *, /, and %. Strings will be concatenated with +. (%{2+5} is the same as %math(2+5))
- Any lone parenthesis will count as another %{} automatically. (So %{(2+5)/(2*5)} is the same as %{%{2+5}/%{2*5}})
- Any functions (text codes) inside %{} will treat their inputs using these rules.
Why would this be useful?
Well, looking at it, we can already do everything here with normal text codes.
The entire point of %{} is to simplify equations.
Here are some cases where code will be drastically reduced in size by this:
(Not all these % codes actually exist, just bear with me)
This is basic distance formula, let's see how short it becomes:
Wow, that's short!
This is a simple message displaying how long a game will take. Here is it using %{} syntax:
Shorter, but not quite the drastic change as last time.
This is getting a variable's value
%{} syntax wins again!
This is just a constant.
Using %{} on literally everything is likely a bad idea. In general, the longer the equation, the more effective %{} will be.
More examples:
Whenever the text is parsed, %{} is converted to whatever value is calculated inside of it.
x = 5, y = 2;
%{x} = 5;
%{x+y} = 7
%{x+y*2} = 14; (No order of ops to be consistent with %math grrrrr)
%{(y/2)*(x+y)} = 7
%{sin(x+y)} = 0.656
So, in short:
%{} parses text inside of it differently to allow for very compact and complex text code manipulation
without going into Nested Percent Code Hell and simplifies lone %var(x)s down to %{x}s.
This would NOT replace anything, it is treated just like any other text code but has a more complex operation on its input than others.
New percent code: %{}
It functions as a simplification for text codes.
Any text inside of %{} behaves differently to allow for making complex equations or functions without it becoming too messy.
Rules:
- Any text by itself will be treated as a variable. (So %{a} is the same as %var(a))
- Any text surrounded in square brackets will also be treated as a variable. (So %{[%default a]} is the same as %var(%default a))
- Any text surrounded in quotes are assumed to be a string literal, and not a variable. (%{"Hello"} is Hello)
- Numbers are assumed to be numbers. (%{5} is 5)
- Any "function" text codes (Anything but %default, %selected, etc) no longer need a % sign. (So %{round(a)} is the same as %round(%var(a)))
- %math rules apply. Numbers will be operated with +, -, *, /, and %. Strings will be concatenated with +. (%{2+5} is the same as %math(2+5))
- Any lone parenthesis will count as another %{} automatically. (So %{(2+5)/(2*5)} is the same as %{%{2+5}/%{2*5}})
- Any functions (text codes) inside %{} will treat their inputs using these rules.
Why would this be useful?
Well, looking at it, we can already do everything here with normal text codes.
The entire point of %{} is to simplify equations.
Here are some cases where code will be drastically reduced in size by this:
(Not all these % codes actually exist, just bear with me)
%sqrt(%math(%math(%var(x)-%var(dx))+%math(%var(dx)-%var(dy))))This is basic distance formula, let's see how short it becomes:
%{sqrt((x-dx)+(y-dy))}Wow, that's short!
There are %floor(%math(%var(maxTime)-%var(currentTime)))[/B] [B]seconds left!This is a simple message displaying how long a game will take. Here is it using %{} syntax:
%{"There are" + floor(maxTime-currentTime) + "seconds left!"}Shorter, but not quite the drastic change as last time.
%var(x)This is getting a variable's value
%{x}%{} syntax wins again!
10This is just a constant.
%{10}Using %{} on literally everything is likely a bad idea. In general, the longer the equation, the more effective %{} will be.
More examples:
Whenever the text is parsed, %{} is converted to whatever value is calculated inside of it.
x = 5, y = 2;
%{x} = 5;
%{x+y} = 7
%{x+y*2} = 14; (No order of ops to be consistent with %math grrrrr)
%{(y/2)*(x+y)} = 7
%{sin(x+y)} = 0.656
So, in short:
%{} parses text inside of it differently to allow for very compact and complex text code manipulation
without going into Nested Percent Code Hell and simplifies lone %var(x)s down to %{x}s.
This would NOT replace anything, it is treated just like any other text code but has a more complex operation on its input than others.
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