Parameters [WAS: Main menu puzzle]

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Apthorpe wrote:
> I second what Mark says about these sorts of explanations, particularly the
> "Assume nothing" and inclusion of (complete) example scripts for new users.
> 
> Thanks to the forum I now have a (partially) working menu, thanks to these
> posts I understand parameters more clearly.  Transcript may be english-like,
> but it's a different language and has to be learned, so we need plenty of
> examples and analogies like the restaurant.  Here's another.
> 
> You are having a dream.  You are in a different country, and there's a group
> of locals around you all talking to each other.  It's an english-like
> language, you catch individual words but they string them together in a very
> strange way.  You stand there gawking and trying to understand.  Suddenly
> they all start jumping up and down and waving their arms around and
> jabbering at you. Then they all start running away like crazy. You stand
> there trying to figure out what they were saying.  It sounds something like
> 
> on alertStranger "mixmastabilongjeezuscrise!"
> beep
> put "wanpelasquashimallbuggerup!" into field "Stupid"
> end alertStranger
> 
> What are they telling you?

They are telling you:

Once we dreamt we were butterflies,
and woke to find ourselves men.
But now we wonder:
Are we men who dreamt we were butterflies,
or butterflies dreaming we are men?

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