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Carharttguy
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Posted: 6th Mar 2017 10:33
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Hello

I stumbled upon this: Variable declaration via characters is not the same as via "As Float".
This code works fine:


But this doesn't:



This is the alternative:



That's kind of redundant, isn't it?

I know I could just use the # way of defining a value, but I like the "As Float" much more, way more readable IMO.

Paul: Is there a way for you to make this consistent? So that we can assign values directly via the "As Type" way?
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easter bunny
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Posted: 6th Mar 2017 11:20
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Quote: "but I like the "As Float" much more, way more readable IMO."

I concur.
And yeah it does seem kinda strange that your cant initialise it that way tbh I wouldn't mind one bit if AppGameKit added the functionality to declare variables the same way they're done in OO languages (alongside the current way for redundancy and peoples habits)

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Markus
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Posted: 6th Mar 2017 12:19
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agree.

you can use shortcuts like this
type ff tab
see snippets.conf

[AGK]
ff=local %cursor% as float

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PSY
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Posted: 6th Mar 2017 23:22
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Concur 2

I always use


It's simply clean and doesn't allow much space for mistakes.


All my floats are marked with a '#', and all variables are fully declared, like so:




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Richard_6
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Posted: 7th Mar 2017 01:45 Edited at: 7th Mar 2017 01:46
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I also like using #option_explicit. It's becomes really handy after some time! It's easier to find errors too.
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Paul Johnston
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Quote: "joystick_x As Float = GetJoyStickX()"

Assigning values to declarations can only use literals as it is parsed by the compiler, which then stores the default value in the bytecode, so it must be a static value. This is mainly to allow declaring of variables with default values in parts of the code that will never be executed, such as included files.
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Carharttguy
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Posted: 10th Mar 2017 14:48
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Thanks Paul, nice to know!

Quote: "you can use shortcuts like this
type ff tab
see snippets.conf

[AGK]
ff=local %cursor% as float"


Thanks for the tip, I have almost everything in snippets.conf now, like If..EndIf, Function..EndFunction and so on!
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