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Mark Garrett
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Posted: 21st Nov 2018 12:13 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2018 10:23
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I mostly use floats in my programs, and I wondered:

Let's say I have 20 variables and I want to declare them all as 'floats'.

instead of coding:


Is there a way to group them all together and declare them all at once 'as float' , using the designation 'as float' just once ?
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Golelorn
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Posted: 24th Nov 2018 02:54 Edited at: 24th Nov 2018 02:55
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xyx#

The # identifies it as a float.

Just as an FYI, $ identifies the variable as a string.
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Sort of, but if you use the symbols, you have to always remember to use the symbol and missing one can be a pain to debug.

x# = 1.0
x$ = "one"
Print(x)
Print(x#)
Print(x$)

Anytime you forget the symbol you will be referring to an integer variable.
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Why not just declare an array of floats?
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in some cases, readability.

force as float
velocity as float
mass as float
gravity as float
size as float

force = mass * velocity

is easier to work with than

phys as float[4]

phys[0] = phys[2] * phys[1]
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If you need separate labels for the easy of readability, I'd say writing 20 lines to declare individually labelled floats doesn't seem like too much work. Have you tried making a few arrays to tidy up?



It seems just as simple to remember var[3] as var3. And it makes for easier work down the road with for and if statements.
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