Put and get on the same line...

[aldreneo]

How can I make it do this

code:

var age:string put "How old are you" + get age

So that they are outputted on the same line?

[Cervantes]

Judging by the title, I got excited and thought someone was asking how to use "get" as a function, rather than a cruddy keyword, so you can do things like

code:

put get

or

code:

name = get

Well, to answer your question, you need to add a .. after the put line:

code:

var age : string put "How old are you? " .. get age

[TokenHerbz]

aha, unless me means to use the put and get on the same line in the CODE

which i dont do but...

code:

put "Get text: " .. get text

[TokenHerbz]

you can make lines of code on a line, but i dont reccomend doing this at all, because its sloppy, and confusing:

Bad way:

code:

var text: string put "Get text: " .. get text put text

Better way:

code:

var text: string put "get text:" ..    %%these two ..'s allow the line to be joined by other things get text put text

ex: of joining output to make it one line on screen, like cervantes said..

code:

put "Part 1 " .. put "Part 2 " .. put "Part 3"

[Clayton]

out of curiosity Cervantes, what do you mean using get as a function, i didnt think that was possible....

[do_pete]

It's not possible.

[[Gandalf]]

do_pete wrote:

It's not possible.

Why not?

code:

fcn get_s : string     var str : string     get str :*     result str end get_s put get_s

[Clayton]

but why would you do that, i mean, what is the purpose of such a fcn?

[do_pete]

[Gandalf] wrote:

do_pete wrote:

It's not possible.

Why not?

code:

fcn get_s : string     var str : string     get str :*     result str end get_s put get_s

No, I meant get can't be used like this:

code:

a := get

[[Gandalf]]

do_pete wrote:

No, I meant get can't be used like this:

code:

a := get

code:

fcn get_s : string     var str : string     get str :*     result str end get_s var a : string a := get_s

[do_pete]

No I mean the get you use in this:

code:

get a

cannot be used like this:

code:

a := get

[[Gandalf]]

Ah, I see. Well, yeah, that's because get is created that way internally. That doesn't stop you from simulating a get() function, as I believe Cervantes was trying to say.

[upthescale]

locate is an option to...


put"What is your name?"

locate(1,20)
get name

[do_pete]

Or you could just do it Cervantes' way since it's much easier.

[Cervantes]

Gandalf's got it. That's what I was geting at

do_pete, you're not seeing the power of using a gets type call as a function.

Say I was doing Martin's Roman_Numeral challege. I made a function to determine if a given string is a valid roman numeral.

code:

function is_valid_roman_numeral (s : string) : boolean     % Compute! end is_valid_roman_numeral

Now, how would I call it? Using get as a keyword, I have no choice but to use a temporary variable that really doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever:

code:

var temp : string get temp put is_valid_roman_numeral (temp)

However, if I use a get as a function (like Gandalf has done), then I don't have to create a useless variable, and I can shrink the program call to one line:

code:

put is_valid_roman_numeral (get)

Much nicer, yes?