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Posted: **Wed Aug 05, 2015 4:33 pm**

If the string passed to game.player.print() is the same as the one passed in previous call, it is not output. (Well, if typed manually, it is.)

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/c for _,i in pairs{0,0,0,0} do game.player.print(i); end

produces output

0

Is it really a reasonable behavior?
It raises problems for debugging when quickly checking a number of different variables:

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a=1; b=1; c=2; d=1;
game.player.print(a);
game.player.print(b);
game.player.print(c);
game.player.print(d);

1
2 <-which element is this?
1

or

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a=1; b=1;
game.player.print(a);
game.player.print(b);
a=a+b;
game.player.print(a);
game.player.print(b);

1
2
1

Such snippets are often temporarily placed in code just to check this or that (well, at least often placed by me), so typing any additional unique strings to identify what is that printed is not very handy. Positional identification on the other hand is cheap and quick way of achieving only slightly less degree of recognition of outputs.

Posted: **Wed Aug 05, 2015 5:05 pm**

I understand it, but the mechanism is used to avoid spam of messages in certain situation (like full inventory, can't build etc).

You can always change the messages to contain unique number or something.

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