Separate Words

I tested Separate Words offline [... snipped ...]

I'm quite sure, the results you got are not intended by the author of the routine! [... snipped ...]

Greetz Huney

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Fascinating, thank you, I am much curious now [... snipped ...]

Q3. Who is the author of the routine?

Me, Ppaatt Lynagh, I wrote the original separateWords routine of the Separate Words article myself.

Q4: What is the intent of the example?

The example I gave was the deeply geeky example of breaking LSL source into words. Words of source are not just the 0 to 16 alphanumeric words, but by intent do include the punctuation marks that appear in the 0 to 33 list. Code that runs afterwards has no hope of discarding the // commentary or reconstructing the "quoted strings" or interpreting \ escapes unless those punctuation marks appear in the output.

The example might not feel right until after you first meet an expression compiler like Chatbot, for which separateWords is just the first step, followed by assignValues, indexParameters, resultOf, etc.

Can we somehow keep this brief and illuminating example to teach new people by the sudden sharp pain of astonishment ... and yet also add English to reduce that pain?

-- most curiously yours, thanks in advance -- Ppaatt Lynagh 05:23, 13 September 2007 (PDT)

A4. I just formatted your article and executed the routine using LSLEditor (as I had no access in-world at the time I worked on Wiki) to get the sample results for use within the doc.

When I wrote my comment: "I'm quite sure, the results you got are not intended by the author of the routine!" I didnt know what exactly llParseString2List does. I simply *expected* the results I got from LSLEditor. Meanwhile I read the description and I know, the in-world results comply with that function's design. Sorry for the confusion I raised.

Meanwhile I learned, that the results from LSLEditor and in-world compiler may differ and I'll report that to LSLEditor's author.

I hope you nontheless enjoyed my reformatting of your article.

Greetz --Huney Jewell 07:51, 13 September 2007 (PDT)

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Yes I do much thank you Huney Jewell for fitting my first LSL Example, specifically the Separate Words example, to the LSL_Editing_Primer style.

I think I also now understand that you're saying you think the Separate Words code is not confusing after all. All that was confusing was that the LSLEditor world and the Second Life world did disagree. Is that right?

All the same, I'm naturally then next curious to discover what an accurate and complete description of the llParse2String function in the LSLEditor world would be. I invite you to clarify, over in the new LSLEditorBugs article. If we can discover some kind of script that works in both worlds, I invite you to contribute that insight also, in that article, or as talk of the Separate Words article or as an improvement to the Separate_Words scripts.

Thanks again for sharing my interest here,

-- Ppaatt Lynagh 06:12, 14 September 2007 (PDT)