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Game Courier History. History of the Chess Variants Game Courier PBM system.

By Fergus Duniho.

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By Fergus Duniho.

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Game Courier History. History of the Chess Variants Game Courier PBM system.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, May 12 04:53 PM EDT:

I made a change to the following functions that can run lambda functions on array values: aggregate, allfalse, nonetrue, alltrue, anyfalse, anytrue, any. These will now have access to the variable key, which will contain the key of the array value currently passed to the lambda function. This should be accessed with the var keyword to make sure that a previously defined variable is not being used.

To prevent expressions using these from changing the value of a previous variable called key, I had to raise the scope of every expression. But to get this to work, I had to rewrite each built-in function that exited the PHP function for evaluating expressions with a return. Instead of using return, I had each one set $output to a single element array with the return value, and I set $input to an empty array so that the condition on the while loop would be false. Doing this makes sure that it decrements the scope before exiting the function.

Raising the scope of an expression also makes sure that the mechanism for adding named variables to a function cannot be used in an expression to set a variable that lasts beyond the expression. The following code prints 6468, then it prints 63. This is because it raises the scope for the assignments in the expression, and when it completes the expression, it closes that scope.

set o 9;
set y 7;
set pp * var o var y =o 98 =y 66;
echo #pp;
print * #o #y;

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2022 06:32 PM EDT:

Small palette board images with fewer than 256 colors that use the default colors can now be recolored like automatically generated boards. When the developer or user has chosen a different color than one of the default colors, the default color will be replaced by the new color in the image. For this to work, the original image must use the default colors, which are 339933, CCCC11, and 22BB22.

A. M. DeWitt wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 01:29 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Mar 15 03:52 PM:

The editor is working again. Thanks.

🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2022 03:52 PM EDT in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 02:41 PM:

It seems the new handling of case is interfering with the display of the Preset Editor, at least for me.

There is a double space in the case statement on the line where the error is.

The error message it gave wasn't quite accurate, because the actual string was the empty string, not one with whitespace in it. I modified it to skip over empty strings. So, it works now.

A. M. DeWitt wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2022 02:41 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from Mon Feb 7 01:18 PM EST:

It seems the new handling of case is interfering with the display of the Preset Editor, at least for me. The link below is an example.

Edit: Taishin Shogi on the Chess Variants Game Courier

There is a double space in the case statement on the line where the error is.

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