recipes · recipe · Updated 2026-09-09

Describe your own thing

Group values that belong to one character.

A name, a life count, and a score all belong to a player. A thing lets us describe that bundle once and give it a useful name. The fields inside Player are the pieces of data it carries. The dot in pip.lives means the lives field of this particular Player value. Two players can have different values.

start.yh

Status: complete-program

thing Player
{
    text name
    int lives
}

Player pip = Player()
pip.name = "Pip"
pip.lives = 3
pip.lives = pip.lives - 1
Console.Log(Text.Format("{0} has {1} lives", pip.name, pip.lives))

manifestVersion = "2"
package = "api.example.recipe__things"
version = "0.1.0"
languageEdition = "yeho-core-2026.1"

[app]
kind = "headless"

Pip has 2 lives