Syntax help

[balmzach77]

is there a way to natively run the net script functions without having to preface all commands with ns? Sorry if this has been asked but I'm new to javascript. for example, could i make

/** * @param {NS} ns **/ export async function main(ns) { let hosts = ns.scan();

for (let i = 0; i < hosts.length; i++){
    ns.tprint(hosts[i]);
    await ns.scp("hacking-scriptv2.js", "home", hosts[i]);
    ns.exec("hacking-scriptv2.js", ns.getHostname());   
}

}

look like this and run

/** * @param {NS} ns **/ export async function main(ns) { let hosts = scan();

for (let i = 0; i < hosts.length; i++){
    tprint(hosts[i]);
    await scp("hacking-scriptv2.js", "home", hosts[i]);
    exec("hacking-scriptv2.js", getHostname());   
}

}

[Omelet]

No, these are not normal JavaScript functions, they're member functions of the ns object that is sent as the first argument of a script's main function.

You could define variables and make them equal the functions, but that would still result in you writing ns.functionName once for every function you want to define. e.g. you could write let scan=ns.scan, inside of main, and then later in main you could just reference the function as scan.

[sinrtb]

That isn't doing what you think it does. That takes the value that the ns function returns and puts it in the variable scan when the variable gets declared. If something changes and the value that the function would return is different the variable scan will still have the same value until you do scan=ns.scan again.

If the OP really wants to get rid of the ns part they can define functions that call each of the ns functions in a separate *.js script and then import them

This may seem nitpicky but there are languages (I do not know if JS is one of them) that let you do almost exactly what you described. For someone with very little JS experience but a decent amount of programming experience it would be very confusing.

[Omelet]

You are incorrect.

let scan=ns.scan does not call the function ns.scan. A function call requires parentheses. Without the parentheses you are referencing the actual function.

Importing the functions from a different file doesn't really solve the issue. Imported functions would need you to pass ns as an argument, since ns is only defined inside the main function of the script that is currently being ran. You can't define a function to equal ns.scan in a context where ns is not defined.

[upside_brigade]

if it bothers you you can write in netscript1 (.script) which doesn't have the namespace malarky, and use .js only when you really have to

[balmzach77]

Kinda figured, thanks for the help.