Suggestion for SC

[GMG Tim]

Hey Mike,

I know SilverCreator has a set syntax and all, but I think it would be a great asset (this goes not only for SC, but any game creator) to have a Python-like scripting language. If we're talking about beginners, Python is syntactically very simple yet powerful...

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# FOR loop
for item in array:
     print item

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# Substrings
text = "this is some text"
print text[0:5]

I know it's difficult to change syntax when you've already started, but I think it'd be a great improvement to any game creator.

Ghost

[GMG Mike]

Well, Python is one language and SilverCreator is another. I try to keep SilverCreator in-line with modern BASIC as much as possible. So having brackets in addition to the MID$ command to print portions of strings would be redundant, while having only the MID$ command gives the new user something to look up and learn.

With the new array support though something like this would be useful for arrays:

FOR EACH array AS item
    code
NEXT