http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
I don't have an issue understanding the language itself (it seems fairly straight forward, although I realise there are advanced things to worry about down the track) but what I'd really like to know are simple things, like what : means in a type. Or is it with variables? I can't tell, and no one explains it. Everyone uses it all over the place as if the beginner is supposed to somehow magically understand what's it's doing. The BlitzMax manual covers what the period does in user defined types, but I can't find a thing on : so working out the syntax of the language has been driving me bonkers.
Every now and then I run into bits and pieces that no one seems to cover, other than saying things like, "This is how we create a type." or, "Here we use this function." and I'm left to figure out what it is that's going on.
Talk about the whiner I am ;) It's cool that people write tutorials at all, but solid, well-explained examples are as rare as hen's teeth, even if you google all day long.
I don't have an issue understanding the language itself (it seems fairly straight forward, although I realise there are advanced things to worry about down the track) but what I'd really like to know are simple things, like what : means in a type. Or is it with variables? I can't tell, and no one explains it. Everyone uses it all over the place as if the beginner is supposed to somehow magically understand what's it's doing. The BlitzMax manual covers what the period does in user defined types, but I can't find a thing on : so working out the syntax of the language has been driving me bonkers.
Every now and then I run into bits and pieces that no one seems to cover, other than saying things like, "This is how we create a type." or, "Here we use this function." and I'm left to figure out what it is that's going on.
Talk about the whiner I am ;) It's cool that people write tutorials at all, but solid, well-explained examples are as rare as hen's teeth, even if you google all day long.