LSL Script Reference

People have probably covered this, before, but ...

I learned programming a little oddly. It started with a book. In this book was a list of commands, statements, functions, etcetera. For each command, statement, functions, etcetera, there was the name of the command, statement, function, etcetera, a description of what it did, and an example of that command, statement, function, etcetera in use. Each example could compile and run {although they never did much}. You could play with the examples to learn how the command, statement, function, etcetera actually worked.

I have noticed that among most programming references I have found, this is sadly lacking. They tell you what the command, statement, function, etcetera is, and what it does, but never give you any further information {like how to use it, and provide examples}. This is very very frustrating to me. It's like people expect you to *know* all these details from the start.

Is there an LSL reference guide that is setup this way? I know there's an html guide, and even a java guide! But I can't seem to find the equivalant for c or LSL.

Love & Friendship & Blessed Be!
Lynn Kukulcan

You've been here?:

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage

I'm with Lynn on this one. I know and love the Wiki, and if I want a specific answer, it's the place I go.

But, I spend a lot of time commuting and would love to have something printed out that I could just go from A-Z to learn. Evena printable version of the Wiki would be good.

I did find a printable reference, but it was basically the command format and a 1 line description, not the great details, examples and gotcha's that the wiki presents.

I realise the problem of currency would lead some people to think a hard-copy is a waste of time. But if it was an on-line PDF which could be updated, it would be up to people to decide themselves how regularly they wanted to do the printout.

I am not sure I would put much effort into learning LSL anymore. Rumor is that it's going away soon to be replaced with Mono.

My understanding was Mono will just be the platform that LSL runs on, as opposed to whatever the current platform is, which will give us speed increases, amongst other things (such as better memory management maybe?) I imagine. I'm willing to be corrected on this, but that's what I was told.