Send arguments with messages

Hopscotch Programming Language Evolution
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#1

A feature I’d like to see in Hopscotch is:

When you send a message you can include some variables that could be used in the rule that listens for a message

I’d use it for this type of project:

Literally every type of project

Here are some examples of Hopscotch code that could be improved if we had this:

  • Telling some object to move to someplace different
  • Sending user input to the player character
  • Asking (and answering) “What is the closest object to this point?” and similar questions
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#2

Marvelous idea! This could be used to detect if an enemy is close by, and then it could give a warning. Now that I think about it, I believe there is already a topic like this. I seem to have forgotten what it’s called, though.

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#3

Isn’t that just like:

Object 1: when{something}happens:
Broadcast message{something}
Set {:iphone: variable} to {something}

Object 2: when I get a message{content of message}:
check once if {variable} = {something}

But good idea though… less code would be needed and then, the loading time will be less!

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#4

Yes, that is how I do it now, and it works if you are using those variables only once per frame. But what if you have many objects, and you send messages to a specific object by including a variable that is unique to that object in the message name? What if you do this to several objects at the same time? You can’t easily do that right now.

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#5

Yeah… as I said, it would make it much easier!

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#6

I like this idea.

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