PELSE: Probability Else?

grey · 2017-12-11T02:59:53.175Z

Just digging into my new Teletype. I tried using ELSE with PROB, which didn’t do anything. So I wrote:

Z SCALE 0 16383 0 100 PARAM
X 0
PROB Z: X 1
IF X: SCRIPT 2
ELSE: SCRIPT 3

I can think of lots of uses for a concise:

PROB Z: SCRIPT 2
PELSE: SCRIPT 3

Was just curious if this had been discussed; and a quick search implied, “No.”

jnoble · 2017-12-11T04:05:50.063Z

How about:

PROB Z: SCRIPT 2; BREAK
SCRIPT 3

grey · 2017-12-11T05:08:58.945Z

I would not guess that to be a functional behavior! I’ll give that a swing.

Pampalini · 2017-12-12T05:15:59.971Z

For a full-fledged switch I always do:

A RAND 100
IF < A 33: //do first case with 0.33 probability
ELIF < A 55: //do next thing with 55-33=22 percent prob.
ELSE: //do this one with 100-55=45 percent prob.

sliderule · 2017-12-12T09:22:41.909Z

grey:

I would not guess that to be a functional behavior! I’ll give that a swing.

It works! Also note that BREAK has an alias BRK.