some basic questions for George

[Betelgeuse]

George can you give us a list of objects and their relationships in Transcendence?
I can guess the basic number, list, and string but what are the limitations on those?

[george moromisato]

Not sure exactly what you mean (the question is very broad).

The Transcendence script uses:

integers (32-bit signed numbers)
strings (arbitrary sized arrays of characters)
lists (arbitrary sized arrays of any type)
functions (either built-in primitives or user-defined)

Things like ship and station pointers are just integers that happen to be the underlying C++ pointer for the actual object.

[Betelgeuse]

Well what kinds of things do functions expect? I know a pointer is an int but that doesn't help me in defining the function. So if a function is expecting a ship I should pass it a pointer to a ship object. Those are the kinds of things I want.

strings are lists? hmm can list functions work on strings too? that could be very helpful.

[Ttech]

Not sure exactly what you mean (the question is very broad).

The Transcendence script uses:

integers (32-bit signed numbers)
strings (arbitrary sized arrays of characters)
lists (arbitrary sized arrays of any type)
functions (either built-in primitives or user-defined)

Things like ship and station pointers are just integers that happen to be the underlying C++ pointer for the actual object.

So we can do functions?

[Betelgeuse]

in lisp nearly everything is a function. Every one of those things in the function list is a function. You can even create your own (see the code examples thread)

[Ttech]

in lisp nearly everything is a function. Every one of those things in the function list is a function. You can even create your own (see the code examples thread)

cool