It seems to be more inspiring for me than talking to a rubber duck
sitting on my desk, at least for simple problems.
For harder problems there will be, hopefully for ever, the user forum
and this newslist.
Beda
Am 14.01.23 um 11:17 schrieb Kaveh via use-livecode:
Quite incredible!
It might be that LiveCode's simple syntax is best suited to ChatGPT.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 03:24, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
So just now I put this in to chatgpt:
"fizz bin" is a program that counts from 1 to 100, replacing every number
divisible by 5 with "fizz" and every number divisible by 7 with "bin"; and
numbers divisible by both 5 and 7 with "fizz bin". Write code in the
programming language livecode to execute "fizz bin"
This is what ChatGPT responded with:
repeat with x = 1 to 100
if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then
put "fizz bin"
else if x mod 5 = 0 then
put "fizz"
else if x mod 7 = 0 then
put "bin"
else
put x
end if
end repeat
That works as-is, but obviously the results fly by in the message box. So I
put a field and a button on a card, and edited to this, and it works
perfectly:
on mouseUp
repeat with x = 1 to 100
if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then
put "fizz bin" & cr after fld 1
else if x mod 5 = 0 then
put "fizz" & cr after fld 1
else if x mod 7 = 0 then
put "bin" & cr after fld 1
else
put x & cr after fld 1
end if
end repeat
end mouseUp
Then as I was typing this email I realized I was potentially selling
chatgpt short, so I put this in:
Modify that code so it works as an "on mouseUp" handler in a button, and
concatenates the results on individual lines, and puts the final result
into the field "display"
And it output this:
on mouseUp
put "" into fizzbin
repeat with x = 1 to 100
if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then
put "fizz bin" & return after fizzbin
else if x mod 5 = 0 then
put "fizz" & return after fizzbin
else if x mod 7 = 0 then
put "bin" & return after fizzbin
else
put x & return after fizzbin
end if
end repeat
put fizzbin into field "display"
end mouseUp
And it followed that with instructions:
This code uses the "on mouseUp" handler to execute the script when the
button is clicked. The results are concatenated and separated by a new line
using the "& return" operator after each output. The final result is placed
into a field with the name "display" using the "put" command.
I'll save you the trouble: that code executes perfectly right out of the
box, with no errors, and of course even though I didn't ask it to, it uses
a variable to store the intermediate values, saving the field update for
the end.
If I were writing it, I'd probably do something like
on mouseUp
put "" into fizzbin
repeat with x = 1 to 100
if x mod 5 = 0 then put "fizz " after fizzbin
if x mod 7 = 0 then put "bin " after fizzbin
if char -1 of fizzbin is space
then put return into char -1 of fizzbin
else put x & return after fizzbin
end repeat
put fizzbin into field "display"
end mouseUp
That might be a bit faster, but probably not as clear.
Finally, I gave it the input:
Now rewrite the code to be a function named "fizzbin" that takes an
argument "n", repeats with 1 to n, and returns the results.
function fizzbin n
put "" into fizzbin
repeat with x = 1 to n
if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then
put "fizz bin" & return after fizzbin
else if x mod 5 = 0 then
put "fizz" & return after fizzbin
else if x mod 7 = 0 then
put "bin" & return after fizzbin
else
put x & return after fizzbin
end if
end repeat
return fizzbin
end fizzbin
This works perfectly, and chat gpt also documents its answer:
This code defines a function named "fizzbin" which takes an argument "n"
that determines the range of the repeat loop. The function builds the
result string in a variable "fizzbin" and return the final result. The
calling script can then use the returned value for further processing or
for displaying in a field.
Grammatical issue notwithstanding, that's good documentation.
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