maybe im just nit picking...

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maybe im just nit picking...

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hello all,

enjoying LOVE like the 6 year old me enjoying disneyland.

though i do have a question or two regarding the syntax of LOVE, maybe even lua, but more on LOVE right now.
since it is mainly dealt with camel case [whereTheTextLooksLikeThis]. then why doesnt things like love.keypressed, or even love.keyreleased have them, like love.keyPressed and love.keyReleased. there are others, but these stuck out because ive been using them just now.
i may be nit picking here, but those keyboard functions have say .setKeyRepeat and so forth.

i guess im just looking at this as keeping things consistent. but just wanted to ask none-the-less. i guess coming from an arduino/c/c++ kind of call, then im just used to those things.
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thanks for that. i chimed in my annoying 2 cents too it ;)
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Just to point out that some modules will abide by a lowercase naming convention due to how Lua's core functions are written (and this might be why LÖVE's callbacks are as they are now).

dofile
setmetable
math.randomseed
debug.traceback
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and so on.

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aye, well the functions for onFocus, keyPressed etc have been the centre of attention. but thanks for letting me know. good to keep in the loop
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You can always have this on the top of main.lua or in the beggining of love.load:

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love.keyPressed = love.keypressed
love.keyReleased = love.keyreleased
love.mousePressed = love.mousepressed
love.mouseReleased = love.mousereleased
--Any other code. You got my point
But yeah, I think I'd prefer uppercase too (even though it'd break 100% of LÖVE games).
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I'd go one step further and ask why the callbacks aren't subscriptions

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love.on_update(function(dt)
    inny.writes.too.much:javascript()
end)
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Inny wrote:I'd go one step further and ask why the callbacks aren't subscriptions

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love.on_update(function(dt)
    inny.writes.too.much:javascript()
end)
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Inny wrote:I'd go one step further and ask why the callbacks aren't subscriptions

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love.on_update(function(dt)
    inny.writes.too.much:javascript()
end)
In my eyes, that code snippet is the perfect illustration for why LÖVE will not do that. :monocle:
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all i ask is please avoid putting "on" in front of everything D:
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