Expression Gate 2

[ShaRose]

Well, I suppose I'll ask, but will it have something like "for k,v in pairs(tablelol) do"? Also, how much closer are we?

[dnifan]

There is this damn built-in character limitation though
4096 Characters or something..

[Syranide]

There is this damn built-in character limitation though
4096 Characters or something..

Well there are some less elegant ways of working around it, anything is better than single lines

Well, I suppose I'll ask, but will it have something like "for k,v in pairs(tablelol) do"? Also, how much closer are we?

Nope, no iterator-style loops will be available and you will not be able to access variables dynamically, some "array/stack/etc" might be available though for those purposes. For-loops is basically a no-no, too easy to abuse and too easy to consume the entire CPU.

Sadly, not closer at all, been up to my neck in other work lately.
Just to clarify, there will most likely not be a "official" release for a very long time, too much that needs to be done, but when I get time, there will be simpler (barely useable) releases to play around with.

[andy1976uk]

Would it be possible to have a dynamic number of inputs and outputs, depending on something in the code? This would make gates much more versatile.

Also, do you plan to have a switch/case mechanism?

[Syranide]

Would it be possible to have a dynamic number of inputs and outputs, depending on something in the code? This would make gates much more versatile.

Also, do you plan to have a switch/case mechanism?

As mentioned before, switch-case will come when I have time, it is hardly essential.

Nope, you cannot have dynamic inputs and outputs in the code as it would not make sense since you cannot dynamically access variables, and doing so would require a full recompile of the code if it would even be possible. And I really can't find what it would be useful for?

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Sadly no more work done so far either, I've had way too much to do and sorry to let you all down, but as it seems I won't be able to spend time on it any time soon.

[andy1976uk]

No, it's not "essential", but it's pretty useful if you want code that doesn't look like it's been vomited all over the screen.

Anyway, real-life takes precedence, ok.

[Sharpshot]

Will it be possible to have the expression gate simulate a timer now?
Example:

Input -> Timer = 1;
$Timer > 0 -> Timer += 1;

[Fatal_Exception]

It already is possible in the current expression gate. See Clk(), interval() and schedule() in the documentation.

[Beer]

No, it's not "essential", but it's pretty useful if you want code that doesn't look like it's been vomited all over the screen.

Anyway, real-life takes precedence, ok.

Seconded. I use the switch-case/select-case function regularly when programming.. so very useful.

Consider the 4096 character limit and it may prove more essential then you think. Ten ELSE IF statements use up a lot more space than one switch statement with ten cases. Temporarily to save time, you could even write the switch code to piggyback already implemented if/else code.

[ShaRose]

Syranide, perhaps you should ask Flux for a separate SVN for this, so other people could work on it. (Or so nuts like me can play with it)