5 replies to this topic

[Erik Leppen]

It seems that it's possible to have variables with the same name as built-in functions.

var cos, min;
min = 3
cos = min + 1
show_message(string(cos))

To me this doesn't sound like a smart move. Is the advent of GM:Studio a good time to start disallowing this, alongside the other bad practices that are already taken care of?

[alexandervrs]

o.O I wasn't even aware of that...

[Manuel777]

C++ runner should be able to notice the difference between those two, right?

[cotycrg]

I..why would you even do that?

[NakedPaulToast]

I..why would you even do that?

It's not a question of wanting to do that, it's a question of happening to do that, or accidently doing that.

I don't WANT to not initiallize variables, but should I forget or mistype a variable name, I want an error message.

[chance]

Fortunately, the color-coded editor flags these names. Unfortunately, it doesn't disallow their use. But you must admit, it can lead to some interesting looking code:

sin = pi/2;
cos = sin(sin);
abs = -abs(-1);
abs = abs(abs);
exp = exp(cos(sin)/abs);