Question: Working with strings

[Gundolf68]

Hi,

first of all my congratulations for this really cool scripting language - especially the function declarations and the multi word variables: I have never seen anything like this before.

My question is: How to access the content of a string? Something like this:

set s to "Hello"
set c to s[1]
loop x over s
    write line "key = ", x key, ", value = ", x value
end

[JamesBoer]

Thanks for the compliments!

If I recall, I believe it was mostly because I didn't want to have to add a char type, and perhaps partly because Jinx is a fairly high level language, and I didn't see a real demand for it. Thinking a bit more about it, I could support this sort of operation by having the index operator returns a string containing a single character, which would still satisfy the intent of the operation.

If you feel it would be useful to you, let me know, and I'll consider adding support. I don't foresee it being difficult to do.

[Gundolf68]

If you feel it would be useful to you, let me know, and I'll consider adding support. I don't foresee it being difficult to do.

Many thanks for the offer: I myself don't need this feature at the moment, but I think this would make Jinx a bit more complete and consistent.

[Gundolf68]

One more question: If I run this code

import core

function the sum of {a} and {b}
    return a + b
end

set x to the sum of 4 and 5
write line x

I get "Error at line 8, column 1: Expected operand". It seems that the "and" in the function signature doesn't work as expected. Shouldn't the precedence of the function call be higher than that of the "and" operator?

[JamesBoer]

Issue has been fixed in development branch. I've also added index operator support for strings.

[Gundolf68]

Thank you very much!

I am so excited about Jinx that I have started writing a Jinx2Lua-Transpiler : )

[JamesBoer]

Interesting. Best of luck with that. Although a very different language, Jinx definitely has taken some inspiration from Lua.