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Daniel

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Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 25

GML Syntax Tricks, Quirks and Oddities Needed

I'm in the process of writing a library of scripts that utilize any and all GM syntax quirks.

For example, one quick I found was that you could leave semi-colons out of the for loop, which let me to create a very-close-to foreach loop in GML. It ended up looking like this:

for(each(list) as key_value())

It works for files, too

for(each("hi.txt") as key_value())

Now I need to know ANY quirks with the language, even if you think they're useless. For example, being able to set/get any variable name with variable_local_set/get, even symbols... Or being able to use _ as a variable/resource name..

FYI, this is for gQuery.

xot

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Registered: 2007-08-18

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Re: GML Syntax Tricks, Quirks and Oddities Needed

Whoa! That's a pretty powerful set of scripts.

I have to admit I'm a little baffled by your "for" construct. That's GML? With the "as" keyword?

I'd look over the GM Bugs and GML References forums here for any topics about GM quirks.

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Daniel

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Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 25

Re: GML Syntax Tricks, Quirks and Oddities Needed

Yes it's standard GML taking advantage of some little GM quirks. I need MORE quirks to take advantage of!

I looked through those forums, and I'm still scouring for some quirks.

Thanks btw.