Talk:What is a script argument for?

If people have suggestions on how to improve this, or just plain out think that this is not the way to write such an article, let me know. If people like it, let's decide how best to format it for the actual page and then I will try to do one in a similar style for the "What is a string?" question.--Msw188 04:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I think it is good. You should go ahead and replace the main body of the article with what you wrote here. Any improvements anyone thinks of can follow. --Bob the Hamster 01:12, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

It's miles better than the current article. I'm glad you wrote this; I dread having to write such things. A suggestion: I think it would be a good idea to mention that arguments actually are variables too.

Although I was initially concerned with all this talk of 'names' and 'numbers', I think it it actually wouldn't give anyone the wrong ideas when typing is finally added -- on the other hand, strings are trickier. There are so many problems: 1) to a programmer, our implementation of strings will probably not make sense, so they might be want to read an article as well. 2) Plotstrings are both strings and floating text, which is very unfortunate. In both capacities, they will become obsolete (though they'll stay around) and are already been partially superseded by text slices (which do not yet support count downs, however) -- but those are unreleased :/. Real strings will be completely different to plotstrings, so try not to give anyone any wrong ideas about what a string is. Prehaps you should split the article in 3: what a string is, how plotstrings hold strings, and visible plotstrings. Also, I do not know whether the string shortcut operators $+ and $= will stay around.

Formatting is simple. Replace bold with headings. The Mad Cacti 09:19, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I replaced the main page. I'm not sure what you mean "Replace bold with headings", but I left a 'revise' tag on the page to remind us about doing it. Sorry this took so long - I had no computer access for a few days while we were on a trip to Maine. I'm going to talk about a string article on that talk page.--Msw188 18:34, 5 October 2009 (UTC)