Re: Ending Free RPG

No - I simply meant that Henrik's examples did not provide any explicit type information and that in a language that requires variables to be defined and typed they did not make much sense as a comparison.

And I didn't draw a comparison between the D-spec and C-spec. Simply meant that it was nasty habit that we were well shot of.

You're making a far more sophisticated argument than I ever intended.

As Brian also pointed out - while Henrik is entitled to his opinion - at least two people on this list who spend a lot of time training non-RPGers in the language have found that students find the dcl style syntax way easier than the old D-spec. Period. End of story.


Jon Paris

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On Mar 18, 2017, at 4:16 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No - because RPG requires strongly typed data declarations - we did aways with the crap about creating fields in the calcs years ago.

There's some variation on what the term "strong" typing means, but I'm
not sure I'm following. In what sense are D-spec declarations
(free-form or not) "strong" while C-spec ones are not?

I would say D-spec declarations provide more organization and are
arguably more readable than C-spec declarations, but both are examples
of *static* type declarations. Maybe you mean D-spec declarations
offer the capability to define *structured* data?

John Y.
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