Basic Types

Basic Types

In TaffyScript, there are very few built in types. The ones that exist are as follows:

• Number (float)
• String
• 1-Dimensional Array
• 2-Dimensional Array

Numbers

Number constants can be any numerical value with or without a decimal point (i.e. 13354 or 60.6). In addition, you can use the following two hex styles:

• Prefix with 0x - 0xFFFF00
• Prefix with ? - ?FFFF00

Strings

String constants can be any character in between single or double qoutes. There is no difference between the two. You can add a newline character by using \n.

Arrays

In order to create an array, just assign a variable to an index like so:

array1[0] = "I'm in an array!";
array2[0, 0] = "I'm in a 2-Dimensional array!";

You can also create a 1D array in the following ways:

• var arr = array_create(5)
• var arr = [0, 1, 2, 3];

Bools

There is no built-in value for true and false, but there are keywords for it. The keyword true is equal to 1 and the keyword false is equal to 0. However, any numeric value that is greater than .5 evaluates to true, and vice versa for false. This seems like a strange method, and that's because it is. This just happens to be the method Gamemaker uses to determine truthiness, and so that's what TaffyScript uses as well, in an effort to not break backwords-compatability.