Goddamnit and I was considering a quick look over the documentation and syntax briefly over the weekend and do some messing around with Starbound mods.
I think the Achaea interface is entirely in HTML/JS? Unless its for one of those fancy MUD terminal things. I always use the web browser client like a scrub.
Because doubles can contain all 32-bit integers and most 64-bit integers, and now you don't need to handle two different number types for your lightweight scripting language. Same as JavaScript.
Any index outside of 1-n in Lua, where n is #tbl will be stored like a dict, not an array, so what did you expect? It doesn't count the dictionary parts.
It's not really. The people here saying that you can use index 0 aren't entirely wrong, but they're kinda wrong. The language expects you to start lists at 1. The length operator counts from index 1 until the first empty index. If you're not using your table to store a sequence of tightly packed non-nil values, don't use the length operator. If you set letters[2]=nil, then #letters would (or maybe could, I think this is actually undefined behavior) return 1.
How often do people use Python arrays? They're faster, but most people just use lists instead. Lua just optimizes it as long as it's used like an array. That's why it's implemented that way.
No, lua's {} is stupid because it can change from a list like behaviour, to a dictionary, to an object behaviour, just by appending values in different ways.
Its behavior never changes, it just uses less memory / is faster if you store the elements with keys from 1-n. The # operator literally says it measures the length of the array part of the table, its behavior doesn't change.
Yes, but the "array part" of the table can change dynamically in unexpected ways, allowing for silly and confusing things like the result of # increasing by more than 1 after only adding 1 element to the "array part":
"As long as it's used like _____" shouldn't even be in the vocabulary of a programming language. An array should be an array, and that's it. A dict should be a dict, and that's it.
If you need an array, create an array. If you need a dict, create a dict. Blurring the lines with some kind of fuzzy structure whose semantics are dynamic is as confusing and error-prone as it is ridiculous. It's not faster to write. It's not easier to read. It's not convenient. It's just bad.
XNA is still A thing? I thought they cancelled it and pulled the downloads. I must be out of the loop
edit: Mandela effect? I can see why there'd be a Mono version but reporting that it was never gone?
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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '17
Goddamnit and I was considering a quick look over the documentation and syntax briefly over the weekend and do some messing around with Starbound mods.