Strings and vars

[Hayden]

Can a Variable equal a string?
Example


Var (killer) =((gamertag))
Context (target)
Notify [[killer] killed ((gamertag))


And it would possibly say something like
KillerDude6000 killed WaffleMaster26
Or would it be a failure...

[Platinum Dryym]

Nope. You can hash someone's gamertag and use that for internal comparison of someone's gamertag, But I think that would be useless for what you are trying to do.

[Hayden]

Nope. You can hash someone's gamertag and use that for internal comparison of someone's gamertag, But I think that would be useless for what you are trying to do.

how about something like this

var [gp] = [goldpieces]
inventory [player] [add] [gp] [200]

would this work fine?

[Platinum Dryym]

Nope. You can hash someone's gamertag and use that for internal comparison of someone's gamertag, But I think that would be useless for what you are trying to do.

how about something like this

var [gp] = [goldpieces]
inventory [player] [add] [gp] [200]

would this work fine?

Nope. There are no strings in variables.

I forget the exact problem with them, But I think Craig said strings are immutable, And create a lot of garbage.

1. Strings [text] in C# are immutable and always allocated on the heap. So all string replacement/substitution must allocate a new string, on the heap, which creates garbage. A lot of garbage when it's done frequently. Too much garbage generation causes garbage collections, which cause CPU stalls for up to 500 ms. This is the main reason I changed scripts from interpreted to bytecode.

I do remember now that Craig said he could possibly create his own string type for scripts. But that isn't in the game.

[Hayden]

Nope. You can hash someone's gamertag and use that for internal comparison of someone's gamertag, But I think that would be useless for what you are trying to do.

how about something like this

var [gp] = [goldpieces]
inventory [player] [add] [gp] [200]

would this work fine?

Nope. There are no strings in variables.

I forget the exact problem with them, But I think Craig said strings are immutable, And create a lot of garbage.

1. Strings [text] in C# are immutable and always allocated on the heap. So all string replacement/substitution must allocate a new string, on the heap, which creates garbage. A lot of garbage when it's done frequently. Too much garbage generation causes garbage collections, which cause CPU stalls for up to 500 ms. This is the main reason I changed scripts from interpreted to bytecode.

I do remember now that Craig said he could possibly create his own string type for scripts. But that isn't in the game.

Okay, thank you very much! I guess all we do now is wait...