Current Page: NeXtMidas Training Getting Started - Part 1 Results Parameters What are they?
- - | What are result parameters? Results parameters are the variables accessible within the shell. Results parameters are labeled values that are accessible within the shell and macro. As the name suggests, results parameters are often the outcome of some calculation that NeXtMidas performs. Each result parameter has a name and a value. The name is always a string and the value can be a string, number, table, array, or any other Java object. Valid Results Names: Results names start with a letter (A-Z) or an underscore (_) and contain letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9) and the underscore (_). Older versions of NeXtMidas were not strict in checking this so a few older applications can be found that don't follow this rule. By convention, results names are not case sensitive when used in the shell or in a Macro. (This is the same as X-Midas.) NeXtMidas allows the user to enter results names that contain lower-case letters (a-z) and will automatically convert them to upper-case (A-Z). Thus, the following three statements are considered equivalent:
        nM> SET COOLNESS 100
        nM> SET coolness 100
        nM> SET Coolness 100
X-Midas Users Take Note:
Like X-Midas, NeXtMidas allows you to force names to be lower-case in order to "hide" them. However, this practice is severely discouraged. Just don't do it!