Future request/question

Pixilang programming language
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philipbergwerf
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Future request/question

Post by philipbergwerf »

I now I have a little experience in pixilang but I really want an easy way to see the outcome of a variable. Why can't there be a simple built-in function

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print(object)
that prints the containing object if possible?

The problem/discomfort is that you have to type a lot and think about the type of data if you want to quickly report to stdout what your object is doing during a while loop.

example:

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i = 0
var = 15
example = 1
while i < 100
{
    example * var
    i + 1
    printf("%f\n", example)
}
What I want is:

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i = 0
var = 15
example = 1
while i < 100
{
    example * var
    i + 1
    print(example)
}
print recognizes the type of data automaticly and returns the value to stdout? I am curious why specifying the type in printf is valuable.
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Re: Future request/question

Post by philipbergwerf »

Ah I see there is already a print() function :oops:
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Re: Future request/question

Post by NightRadio »

The problem is that there is only numeric data type in Pixilang :)
Even if you write something like:
str = "some text"
str is a numeric variable, which contain the ID of the string container.
So there is no automatic way to determine what str is (container id or just a number)
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Re: Future request/question

Post by philipbergwerf »

Ah I understand. And I can add some snippets to my text editor to overcome the discomfort :)
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