The nothing mathematics function

EvanTropFun

I will show to you mathematic function to make your life easy

First, NOTHING :

function NOTHING()

return void

This function will do nothing which will therefore have no interest

CRASH

function CRASH()
 struct CRA
  int x = gwidth()/2
 endstruct
CRA died
return void

This function will crash your console which will add meaning to your games.

FREEZE

function FREEZE()
 loop repeat
return void

This function will stop your game useful for creating meaning in your games.

PickleCatStars

I like the freeze function. Will have to use that one sometime...

Kat

Interesting. I'm not sure what the issue with the crash function you've written is exactly but it's something we are fixing in the upcoming patch :) I imagine it's best to avoid actually crashing the software but you could always make a fake crash screen. LinkCraft made a very convincing crash screen in their halloween gamejam entry (https://fuzearena.com/forum/topic/1388/fuze-halloween-gamejam-30th-october-1st-november-theme-announced about 39:30 in the video if you want to see it in action)

Martin

@EvanTropFun said in The nothing mathematics function:

function FREEZE()
loop repeat
return void
This function will stop your game useful for creating meaning in your games.

But surely it's not all that useful since the function will never return and therefore that's that. Once you've called that function, that's your lot. It's also not a good idea to call an indefinite loop that does nothing.

PickleCatStars

I have another useful function. Not as meaningful as the others, but I’m sure it will be useful.

SETVALUE

function SetValue(value)
    int ValueToSet = value
return ValueToSet

This function will set a value to a given variable. For example:

Int a
a = SetValue(10)

This will set the value of the variable ’a’. It will set it to 10. Setting values to variables is incredibly useful, I’m sure others have come up with their own versions of this function already because it’s so useful, but this is a nice clean implementation that is useful to use :)

EvanTropFun

Yes cool function !

Devieus

@toxibunny said in The nothing mathematics function:

I have another useful function. Not as meaningful as the others, but I’m sure it will be useful.

SETVALUE
function SetValue(value)
    int ValueToSet = value
return ValueToSet
This function will set a value to a given variable. For example:
Int a
a = SetValue(10)
This will set the value of the variable ’a’. It will set it to 10. Setting values to variables is incredibly useful, I’m sure others have come up with their own versions of this function already because it’s so useful, but this is a nice clean implementation that is useful to use :)

I've improved on this by changing SetValue to take 2 arguments:

function SetValue(target,value)
    target=value
return void

That way you won't have to assign it, and you can just call

int a
SetValue(a,10)

Feels a lot more natural and is 100% more useless since F4NS doesn't use pointers, so the operation does nothing to a outside the scope.

PickleCatStars

You need to use REF then. How’s about this:


function SetValue(ref target,value)
    If target == value then
        nothing()
    else
       target=value
    Endif
return void

This improvement restores %100 of the usefulness, and makes use of evanTropFun’s nothing() function in order to improve readability and avoid unnecessary setting of a value that doesn’t need to be set. I really think we’re getting somewhere here!

Z-Mann

Painfully missing: Imagine you have a variable, but no more use for it. Here's the function for you:

function Ignore(value)
    NOTHING()
return void

JonboyDev

Wow, I actually learned something from this post... know when to stop reading!

Very funny stuff indeed.

You'll be telling computer jokes soon....

PickleCatStars

Nah, I only know 10 computer jokes, and they’re both pretty bad...

Richard

The partner to setValue is of course getValue which works like this

function getValue(a)
return a

EvanTropFun

you are all geniuses 😱