Inconsistent use of strings about hedy

[Felienne]

Upon further consideration and examining of user data, this was a mistake, ask needs to take a string too. Will be fixed in a new version of the grammars.

[Felienne]

Here was my thinking, but I am also of course willing to learn from your experience!

• print is a real Python command that we want to build up in steps to the real thing
• ask is a toy command, that will be replaced with a true function call---input()---once kids now how to write those things

Hence I did not want to make the syntax of ask too rich.

But I see it leads to issues such as not being able to use variables in ask.

Still thinking about it, feedback welcome!

[arjenpdevries]

Can you work around the problem by telling students everything after ask is given to an equivalent print command? Then you can implement it using print on everything s/(^.*ask)// and process the result as you had planned.

In my observation, the kids were happy to learn the difference between using quotes and not, but then confused that it did not work the same way in ask as in print.

[arjenpdevries]

Data-driven language design, pretty cool!