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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:29:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   bad language design ideas I just made:

   assignment sometimes means the same thing as array.append

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:36:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's because the format of a flag is like:
     $variable="value"
     $variable2=#FF00FF

     shape{
     $color
     }

     but one of the special variables is the "name" and a flag can have multiple names. So... you just assign the variable more than once! and it remembers all of them!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:40:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this is because things like the classic rainbow flag are known as "gay", "rainbow", and "rainbow1979"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:43:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it may be the first language where "thick" is a reserved word, though

   • Jes Wolfe (jes5199@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:52:02 JST Jes Wolfe

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     @foone ah, perl-like semantics

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:52:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jes Wolfe

     @jes5199 good point. I'll change it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:53:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     OH ALL RIGHT I took out the magic syntax for assignment vs array.append.

     it just makes lists slightly more complicated now. So instead of:

     $name="gay"
     $name="rainbow"
     $name="rainbow1979"

     you now write:

     $name=["gay", "rainbow", "rainbow1979"]

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:01:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it just required ONE person to accuse this of being "perl-like semantics" to shame me into changing the language.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:08:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Nuclear Oatmeal :verified:

     @uss_oatmeal I think that's just true of all python programmers

   • Nuclear Oatmeal :verified: (uss_oatmeal@mstdn.party)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:08:11 JST Nuclear Oatmeal :verified:

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     @foone

     Mental note: Foone's weakness is Perl based mockery.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:15:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     thankfully my flag design language isn't turing complete.

     (other than how all my creations are turing complete, because I'm named Turing)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:16:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     otherwise I might be tempted to port Doom to a gay pride flag.

     (I still have a project to do the opposite, but I haven't gotten back around to it)

   • Brian Danger Hicks (ckape@teh.entar.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:40:32 JST Brian Danger Hicks

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     @foone I don't know about your projects, but none of mine are ever complete

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:40:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Brian Danger Hicks

     @ckape being Turing Complete is the only way I can complete anything, it's true

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:23:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I turned my temporary notes into a wiki page, in case anyone wants to read 'em:

     https://wiki.foone.org/w/VGA_Flag_Language

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:24:52 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @foone Practical Flag Rendering Language

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:24:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Gorgeous na Shock!

     @indigoparadox don't be silly. it's not that practical.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:45:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Alisdair Calder McGregor

     @A_C_McGregor ahh, good catch. Both are true, just in different context (black is pre-defined in the hardware palette, but black & white are predefined as variables), so I should rewrite that to make it more clear

   • Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 11:45:11 JST Alisdair Calder McGregor

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     @foone you say at one point that there's only one pre defined colour (black), and then later have two (black & white)

     Also I have to wonder how it would react the Hexadecimal colours

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 13:18:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • David Machaj

     @david definitely a good idea, and something I'll work on once the software is more functional

   • David Machaj (david@fedi.machaj.info)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 13:18:59 JST David Machaj

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     @foone it would be nice if the examples also included a screenshot of the result

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 16:54:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • McTwist

     @mctwist YIKES

   • McTwist (mctwist@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 16:54:36 JST McTwist

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     @foone Reminds me of how #TorqueScript handles "lists":
     $var1 is the same variable as $var[1].
     Every variable name is a string. There are no lists, you simulate them through string concatenation. Numbers are converted to strings automatically.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 13:11:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Florian Schulze

     Updated the page based on some feedback from @fschulze:

     Triangle and Quad have been dropped (since they can be trivially replaced by Polygon), and Star has been dropped because Polygon now has the ability to translate polygon definitions before drawing them. So instead of having a universal "Star" command, the one flag that needs them (Brazil!) will just define its own stars

   • Cumberland Gorch (crobbler@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:33:19 JST Cumberland Gorch

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     @foone CSS has "thick" as a valid value for border-width. Sorry.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:33:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Cumberland Gorch

     @crobbler DAMN!

     I guess I'll have to rename it "thicc" to maintain my originality

   • Cumberland Gorch (crobbler@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:35:13 JST Cumberland Gorch

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     • Florian Schulze
     • 🏴 FlagBot 🏳

     @foone @fschulze @flagbot

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:35:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Cumberland Gorch
     • Florian Schulze
     • 🏴 FlagBot 🏳

     @crobbler @fschulze @flagbot
     Flagbot is neat. I've thought about jokingly making a pride-flag-generator, given how many pride flags are just 3-8 vertical stripes.
     Pick some random colors, and you've got a flag!