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[Turgut Guneysu]

Hi John,

It is possible to use:

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But not possible to check for:

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Not a biggie, but if the first is allowed,, it leads one to think the second should be possible.

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[John Maloney]

Dropping reporter blocks in “when received” is now disallowed. (That construct never worked since the received message has to be a string constant.)

However, the broadcast block converts its argument to a string, so it is possible to broadcast a number or a boolean. For booleans, you need to use the strings “true” and “false” in the when received block. This is a hack and isn’t recommended practice.

On the other hand, broadcasting and receiving numbers is fine and can be very useful. For example, you might broadcast a random number to trigger a random response from a set of “when N receive” hats for N over the random range of the random block.