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Note: most of the time when people ask how to do this on newsgroups and other forums, on investigation, it is found that a neater solution is to '''map name to value in a dictionary'''. |
Note: most of the time when people ask how to do this on newsgroups and other forums, on investigation, it is found that a neater solution is to '''map name to value in a dictionary'''. |
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=={{header|Quackery}}== |
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Quackery does not have variables, but it does have ''ancillary stacks'' which can be used as variables. |
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<lang Quackery> [ say "The word " |
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dup echo$ |
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names find names found iff |
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[ say " exists." ] |
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else |
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[ say " does not exist." ] ] is exists? ( $ --> ) |
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[ $ "Please enter a name: " input |
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cr |
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dup exists? |
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cr cr |
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dup say "Creating " echo$ |
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say "..." |
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$ "[ stack ] is " over join quackery |
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cr cr |
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exists? cr ] is task ( --> )</lang> |
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{{out}} |
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As a dialogue in the Quackery shell. |
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<pre>/O> task |
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... |
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Please enter a name: my-ancillary-stack |
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The word my-ancillary-stack does not exist. |
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Creating my-ancillary-stack... |
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The word my-ancillary-stack exists. |
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</pre> |
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=={{header|R}}== |
=={{header|R}}== |
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