What is the official status of 512 support?

tacolizard · Post by **tacolizard** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:00 pm #391549

Are we allowed to use 512-exclusive features like the

.?

operator or do we still need to maintain backwards compatibility?

Post by **oranges** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:11 am #392984

not yet, when it's more stable, we will switch to 512 compile time features being allowed.

Post by **Dax Dupont** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 8:37 pm #393110

What the fuck does .? anyways

SpaceManiac · Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:04 pm

(a.?b) is roughly equivalent to (a && a.b), except `a` is only evaluated once (as though you stored it in a variable, if it was not already).

Post by **Dax Dupont** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:11 am #393215

So it checks if say Weapon isn't null and weapon.force isn't either
?

Supermichael777 · Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:41 pm

Its ~slightly faster~.

tacolizard · Post by **tacolizard** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:13 pm #393679

it's also more elegant.

you can do

var/foo = bar?.dank

which is useful if your code is designed to handle foo being null

SpaceManiac · Post by **SpaceManiac** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:27 am #396734

Post by **MrStonedOne** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 5:55 pm #397578

Nope.

511 is still supported as long as the define in compile options is still 511 and not 512

/tg/Station 13