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#1 2009-05-24 01:33:36
"item [any] of list"?
I noticed there's an option in the (item __ of list) block called "any". I could never figure out what that means. Does it mean it checks if any item is named that, or does it pick an item from the list at random? (the latter being completely useless, since you can easily use "pick random (1) to ((length of list))".)
I'm just wondering, because I haven't really used lists that much.
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#2 2009-05-24 01:48:33
Re: "item [any] of list"?
It picks a random value
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#3 2009-05-24 08:14:22
- Paddle2See
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Re: "item [any] of list"?
Yeah, I've seen people get confused by this one...they use it in a comparison and expect it to find a matching value...when all it really does is return a random value. Pretty useless, now that I think on it.
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#5 2009-05-24 11:58:44
- yambanshee
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Re: "item [any] of list"?
no wonder my Xs and Os project bugs sometimes, i thought it checked all the values!
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#7 2009-05-24 12:22:00
Re: "item [any] of list"?
Mozaz wrote:
Maybe it's a glitch, because it seems stupid to have an option like that, when you could just use the random block.
This block would be great if it did what it said on the cover.
It does do what it says it does. It picks any item.
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#8 2009-05-24 13:04:33
Re: "item [any] of list"?
coolstuff wrote:
Mozaz wrote:
Maybe it's a glitch, because it seems stupid to have an option like that, when you could just use the random block.
This block would be great if it did what it said on the cover.It does do what it says it does. It picks any item.
SO that block picks a random from the list and does something to it?
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#9 2009-05-24 13:10:23
Re: "item [any] of list"?
coolstuff wrote:
Mozaz wrote:
Maybe it's a glitch, because it seems stupid to have an option like that, when you could just use the random block.
This block would be great if it did what it said on the cover.It does do what it says it does. It picks any item.
I would think it it meant that it checks every item in the list, and if one of them equals a value then it does whatever.
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#10 2009-05-24 13:14:41
Re: "item [any] of list"?
Mozaz wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
Mozaz wrote:
Maybe it's a glitch, because it seems stupid to have an option like that, when you could just use the random block.
This block would be great if it did what it said on the cover.It does do what it says it does. It picks any item.
I would think it it meant that it checks every item in the list, and if one of them equals a value then it does whatever.
But isn't it random?
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