Talk:PRIM POSITION

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Revision as of 09:59, 24 December 2008 by Ppaatt Lynagh (talk | contribs) (llSetPrimitiveParams should be linked as prominently as llGetPrimitiveParams from PRIM_POSITION, but the wikitext there is too exotic for me to begin to know how to do that)
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Set or Get, Your Option

Today, in the PRIM_POSITION article, we see:

<lsl> [ PRIM_POSITION, vector position ] ... llGetPrimitiveParams([ PRIM_POSITION ]); ... </lsl>

I think we'd rather see:

<lsl> llSetPrimitiveParams([ ..., PRIM_POSITION, vector position, ... ] ... llGetPrimitiveParams([ ..., PRIM_POSITION, ... ]); ... </lsl>

I think this because I am new, so I still now remember the pain of not knowing:

    i) that often Lsl defines the same PRIM op to do symmetric things inside both llGetPrimitiveParams and for llSetPrimitiveParams, and

    ii) that each PRIM op and its args appear in the list of Params catenated together with other ops and args.

I then think the spirit of wiki is that, since I believe in this change, I should make this change myself, and spark community review that way. However, the wikitext here is much too exotic for me to begin to know how to make and save a change like that myself here. So I ask ...

Q: Anyone out there both:

    a) agree with me on how we should improve this page for the newbie and

    b) know how to change the wikitext to achieve this effect?

Or please would you hint how I could learn to do this myself? Thanks in advance,

-- Ppaatt Lynagh 17:59, 24 December 2008 (UTC)