AppGameKit Classic Chat->Spaces in command names
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Mike Johnson Joined: 13th Sep 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 10:54
Rather than keep everything in one big thread I will make a few threads so we can keep on topic for one issue.

In the previous thread I mentioned about removing spaces in command names. It looked like there was plenty of support for this so commands go from:

Load Image "your image.png", 1

to

LoadImage "your image.png", 1
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C0wbox Joined: 6th Jun 2006
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Posted: 21st Jan 2011 11:40
If you do take out the spaces, make sure that it isn't case sensitive so people can choose whether they put capitals on individual words. - I personally hate having to have my finger hovering over shift while I'm coding and like to just freely spam text that does stuff but I can also see the advantage in coding like that.
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baxslash Joined: 26th Dec 2006
Location: Duffield
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 12:10
I agree, keep it none case sensetive and take out the spaces.
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Green Gandalf Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Location: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 12:47
On topic: definitely no spaces.
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Scraggle Joined: 10th Jul 2003
Location: Yorkshire
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 12:56
No Spaces
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Benjamin Joined: 24th Nov 2002
Location: France
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 12:58
Since it'll make parsing easier, no spaces.
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bitJericho Joined: 9th Oct 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 14:41
I don't care either way.
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Help people Joined: 4th Oct 2010
Location: Tombsville
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 15:00
No spaces ... and thanks for the information...
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thenerd Joined: 9th Mar 2009
Location: Boston, USA
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 15:37
No spaces.
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swissolo Joined: 9th Jan 2010
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Posted: 21st Jan 2011 15:53
No spaces

Although I doubt anyone will agree with me, I like using _ as space, so it's separted, but still one whole word.
load_image()
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Diggsey Joined: 24th Apr 2006
Location: On this web page.
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 16:14
No spaces

@swissolo
The only bad thing about that is that it's slow to type _ compared to other letters.
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swissolo Joined: 9th Jan 2010
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Posted: 21st Jan 2011 22:33
Yep, completely aware of that, I got really used to using it in my variables, but I don't expect it to become a norm. Speed to type is the same reason I didn't like having sync with brackets... sync() instead of sync. I see everyone's reasoning, but I don't quite understand why it's so important... Doesn't really matter.
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LeeBamber Joined: 21st Jan 2000
Location: England
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 22:43
Looks like the 'no spaces' camp have it Imagine all those saved key presses and 'every so slightly' shorter commands!
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Green Gandalf Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Location: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 21st Jan 2011 23:22
Thread lock? Or am I jumping the gun.
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Brk_oth Joined: 8th Aug 2005
Location: Australia
Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 5:47
no spaces and im glad that basically everyone else thinks the same.
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DMXtra Joined: 28th Aug 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 8:10
No spaces
No object numbers

AGK should manage Object numbers, I shouldn't have to do that as it's 2011 and nobody should manage object numbers except AGK.

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myimage = loadimage("yourimage.png")


This in my opinion is just better to read and to code.
No image numbers for anyone to manage and remember.

No spaces in commands, easier to manage, easier to read, case insensitive (why should the computer worry how I type things, it should know what I mean--again this is 2011).

Spaces are confusing to humans and to the IDE and it's more to type for no reason and it looks sloppy.
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Fatal Berserker Joined: 2nd Jul 2010
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 20:53
No image numbers for anyone to manage and remember.

You can already store that in a const variable.
But how do you propose we loop through every object from X to Y?
Storing them all in an array seems abit wasteful of time and resources.
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The Slayer Joined: 9th Nov 2009
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 21:39
Having no image (or object, sound, etc...) numbers, would really cause issues, IMO.
How would you find the right image back if you'd had 500 images, all declared like this:

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myimage = loadimage("yourimage_01.png")
myimage = loadimage("yourimage_02.png")
myimage = loadimage("yourimage_03.png")
myimage = loadimage("yourimage_04.png")
myimage = loadimage("yourimage_05.png")
myimage = loadimage("yourimage_06.png")
myimage = loadimage("yourimage_07.png")
etc...


or even like this:

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myimage1 = loadimage("yourimage_01.png")
myimage2 = loadimage("yourimage_02.png")
myimage3 = loadimage("yourimage_03.png")
myimage4 = loadimage("yourimage_04.png")
myimage5 = loadimage("yourimage_05.png")
myimage6 = loadimage("yourimage_06.png")
myimage7 = loadimage("yourimage_07.png")
etc...


???

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Green Gandalf Joined: 3rd Jan 2005
Location: Malevolence:Sword of Ahkranox, Skyrim, Civ6.
Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 21:44
Store the values in an array perhaps?
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The Slayer Joined: 9th Nov 2009
Location: (Hide and) Seek and Destroy on my guitar!
Posted: 22nd Jan 2011 22:09
Store the values in an array perhaps?

I'd rather have it the old way. Arrays and me don't go well together.