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A profile... why not.

Some things I enjoy doing: reading, mountain biking, hiking in the mountains, anything with computers, er, most things really. I love to ski, and just wish I could go on a slope longer than 180 metres.
Partly inspired by enjoying DinkC coding, I went to college to learn a bit of Software Development and am now working with some local developers, using VB.NET and C#.

I have many things I should be doing so writing a profile seemed a good way of putting them off.

I live in northwest England (south originally) and, um, that's about it.

I'm making a D-Mod and have some ambitious ideas for future ones but don't expect anything soon!

SparrowhawkDN@gmail.com
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You can return values when calling a function in another script using external.
It's 2am but I feel this is amazing and should be shared! Immediately!

For some reason this only appears to work when using &return.

// Script test.c
external("test2", "thingy");
say_stop("&return", 1);
external("test2", "thingy", 1);
say_stop("&return", 1);
external("test2", "thingy", 7);
say_stop("&return", 1);

// Script test2.c
void thingy (void)
{
  int &t;
  &t = 123;
  &t += &arg1;
  return(&t);
}

Dink will say, as expected, "123", "124", "130".

If you assign to a variable as usual, it won't work:

// Script test.c
int &temp;
&temp = external("test2", "thingy");
say_stop("&temp", 1);
&temp = external("test2", "thingy", 1);
say_stop("&temp", 1);
&temp = external("test2", "thingy", 7);
say_stop("&temp", 1);
say_stop("wut", 1);

Weird things will happen: Dink will say "wut" and nothing else. The script execution seems to skip to the line after all these external() calls and then continue. Why the say_stop's in between don't happen I have no idea.

Tested in 1.08, Freedink 109.6 and Dink HD.
I am way too excited about this (probably because it's 2am... I mean 2.45...)