Funny programming language in snap! (Part 2)

Requests to the Community Collaborations
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Setting functions:

set function make-a-square($param1, $param2) do /*How could this be formatted to allow for spaces?*/
...
end

Running functions:

make-a-square("param1text","param2text")

How's that?

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void function hello world do
write "hello world" with a new line
end

hello world
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then you can't put "do" at the end of function names. make the function name a string

void function "hello world" do
write "hello world" with a new line
end

hello world

also how would you make params

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exactly, brackets can be used like this in english.

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I mean JS is good as in readability, except some Spaghetti code

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Not necessarily. Only certain values are legal, so it makes sense to view them as symbols rather than as text.

35

do ... done?

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so like this

do
//insert code here 
done
37

yeah. Does that feel less weird?

38

kind of but i still like using

{
//code here
}

or

[
//code here
]
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It's not really english syntax though...

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i know

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Terminal Commands, these run with the "program itself" as an a object.

Create Variable "string" with (value) -- Creates a variable

display(value) -- sort of like the print command in python or console.log in JS

wait (value) sec -- You know what this is, simply pause 1 second

make Object called "string" -- Makes a sprite appear at x:0 y:0, it appears as a TURTLE.

Change (variable name) to (value)

set (object name) to (picture)

do [  -- The Old REPEAT BLOCK
    //code
] 10 times

Object Commands, these run with the Object in mind.

tell "object name" to [
     //code
] --Tells object to do this.

go to 0, 0, -- go to x, y

pen("down or up") -- Toggles Pen

//what more could I do?
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switch pen status
pen down // reports if the pen is down

also if there's

tell object to [
//code
]

then there should be

ask object for (stuff goes here)

also variables are like this

create the variables ($var, $var2)
set $var to 6
set $var2 to 8
set $sum to $var + $var2
write $sum with new line
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oh yea

wait 1 sec

should be

sleep 1 sec

repeat is good
but

change $varname to thing
// is just the same as
set $varname to thing
//do you mean
change $varname by 2

make object called "sprite"
should be

make an object called "sprite name"

without the an, it wouldn't be englishy

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I am trying to balance between being englishly and being easy to type commands. you can anyways still read it and it would make sense.

I mean actually do mean

change "var name" to thing,

btw.

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oh, i thought that you were talking about

change $var by 2
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Why would variables need a dollar sign? It also makes more sense to create each variable separately. There is a reason why both python:

var1 = 1
var2 = 2

and JS:

var var1 = 1;
var var2 = 2;

both need to make the vars separately. It just makes more sense and

create the variables ($var, $var2)

would be ungrammatical if you only needed one variable.

create the variables ($var)
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the dollar sign is very useful

1 reports 1 right? what if we created a variable called 1 and set it to 2?
1 would report 1 and $1 would report 2. The dollar sign is to let the computer know that it is a variable