Interprets the given string as if it had been typed in the Command Center, and reports the resulting value. The result may be a number, list, string, or boolean value, or the special value "nobody".
Useful in conjunction with the user-input primitive for converting the user's input into usable form.
show read-from-string "3" + read-from-string "5" => 8 show length read-from-string "[1 2 3]" => 3 crt read-from-string user-input "Make how many turtles?" ;; the number of turtles input by the user ;; are created
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