[Zscript] Mod/File checking

[Ryan Cordell]

Oh I'm sure they do.. right now, but that doesn't feel like a smart system to begin with.

[Major Cooke]

Well, again, I can't be certain. I'm just guessing there.

Also, made a separate thread for general discussion and questions considering how off the rails I took this thread.

[Graf Zahl]

There's 4 types of constants:

ints, floats, strings and names.

Strings can be unambiguously recognized by double quotation marks.
Names can be unambiguously recognized by single quotation marks.
Floats get recognized by either being too large for integer storage or typical floating point signs in the literal, like a decimal point or an exponent

And in case you wonder what this part was inspired by, I'd say don't look further than the most popular scripting language right now: Lua. Of course Lua takes the 'the value determines the type' approach even further by applying it to everything.

[Major Cooke]

Alright. I've documented all that down on the wiki.

Now back to the suggestion at hand, how will the zscript control work?

[Graf Zahl]

Can we please get this stuff working first? Right now this thing is not even on my radar.

[Major Cooke]

My mistake. When you stated there's options, I had assumed there was already some form.

[Graf Zahl]

It makes no sense to think about control stuff when I'm still in the initial stages of making the compiler work.

[Major Cooke]

I think now might be a good time to bring this up again.

Perhaps something similar to how C++ does (end)if's might work? By checking for a specific 'tag' or something inside the files and versioning like you mentioned, this could become extremely useful.

This would be better than just going on file names alone since those may be prone to change.

[Graf Zahl]

This one's already in the tracker.

[Rachael]

Reopened from tracker

[Graf Zahl]

Removed the 'closed' tag.