Cthulhu Project : Let's Make Unmaintainable Code

[MadByte]

What if I wanted to add a lbrary written by me? Do I have to copypaste it in?

( quoted so everyone see it also on my post :p )

And what about editing / replacing resources ( images, sounds etc.. ) of other people ?

[Roland_Yonaba]

What if I wanted to add a lbrary written by me? Do I have to copypaste it in?

My opinion would be : don't. Maybe you can copy/paste the relevant code to include it, but definitely not the whole library.

And what about editing / replacing resources ( images, sounds etc.. ) of other people ?

Not a definitive answer, but i'd say yes, it should be possible to replace/edit assets of other people.

[bekey]

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[szensk]

Lua isn't quite as well prepared for something like this. We don't have gotos etc. But writing bad code can be fun anyway

We can do fun things like define operators on types that normally don't have operators and as types aren't explicitly typed this can be quite sneaky as to what's actually happening. For example:

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debug.setmetatable(0, {__mul=function(j, f)if type(j)=="function"then j,f=f,j end for i=1,j do f(i,j)end return j end})

range = 1, 5
* function (i)
	print("Hi",i)
end
* print

[Roland_Yonaba]

We can do fun things like define operators on types that normally don't have operators and as types aren't explicitly typed this can be quite sneaky as to what's actually happening. For example:

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debug.setmetatable(0, {__mul=function(j, f)if type(j)=="function"then j,f=f,j end for i=1,j do f(i,j)end return j end})

range = 1, 5
* function (i)
	print("Hi",i)
end
* print

Hell no...
Although it looks nice (really), such an hacky trick relies on Lua's debug library. And I do not recommend playing with this.
Actually, i'll add a rule, Lua's standard library functions should not be altered. This would (unnecessarily) complexifies the challenge. Keep in mind the purpose of this is not "writing bad code intentionally", as Micha pointed it out previously. Such wise words have to be quoted.

No, it's a project about writing a game together in the community, with the extra rule that you may not change existing code, but only add new code. The unmaintainability is more a result than a rule.

I would rather say that everyone should strive to write clean code.
The difficulty here is "the mess will come naturally" because commit after commit, the whole program takes a different direction, depending on the crazy ideas that were added by the last committer.

[szensk]

No, it's a project about writing a game together in the community, with the extra rule that you may not change existing code, but only add new code. The unmaintainability is more a result than a rule.

I would rather say that everyone should strive to write clean code.
The difficulty here is "the mess will come naturally" because commit after commit, the whole program takes a different direction, depending on the crazy ideas that were added by the last committer.

Oh boy, I misunderstood the intent. Luckily it sounds a lot more fun this way.

I stand by that it's easy to write bad code in Lua, however.

[Cybearg]

This sounds like fun! I know nothing of LOVE or Lua, so I doubt I can participate, but I'll definitely be following along.

[bekey]

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[substitute541]

Yeah...

[Nsmurf]

I am so in.
Please add me once you create the project, so that I'll get an email about it. My username on github is WesleyAC. (Hey, look, everyone knows my real name now!)

What would be awesome is if this went on longer than 3 days though, so it could get really messy. I'd prefer something like 1 week.

Also:

A logo I made to practice my GIMP skillz.

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