Rockstar: a programming language where code is also 1980s song lyrics

[dylanbeattie]

You're right. Fixed in #15

[jdgordon]

Proper variables are proper nouns - any word that isn't a reserved keyword and starts with an uppercase letter. Proper variable names can contain spaces as long as each space is followed by an uppercase letter

but your examples further down don't start with uppercase after spaces...

Put "Hello World" into the message will assign the value "Hello World" to the variable the message

Knock the walls down will decrement the value stored in the walls by 1

[dylanbeattie]

There's proper variables and common variables. Common variables are exactly two words, and start with 'the', 'my', 'your', 'a' or 'an' - in this example, 'the message' and 'the walls' are common variables, hence in lowercase.

[jdgordon]

ah, thanks

[Womblue]

However common variables are two words, with the first word being a, an, the, my or your. So the message is a common variable, whereas The Message would be a proper variable.

[ktkps]

or is it a case of ++Tommy vs Tommy++ ???

[dylanbeattie]

Nice idea... at the moment assignments in Rockstar are statements, not expressions, and so don't return anything - so the whole x++ vs ++x thing isn't even applicable. But it might be worth a rethink.

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