Creating a group foo and referring to it using @foo?

[Krion]

Hey,

 

I was reading a bit of the documentation, and i found this:

This is very similar to groups: using @name=foo is similar to creating a group foo and referring to it using @foo

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/name.html

And i started wanting to try to play with this notion here that you can refer to a group foo by using @foo.. But it didn't seem to work for me. It just created an new attribute.

 

I am trying to understand this. Can anyone help me?

 

 

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Edited February 26, 2019 by DévinOdforce

[Skybar]

not sure what that refers to specifically but in vex it is i@group_foo = 1;

[Krion]

Hm, allright. Nice to know that, thanks. Does the i stand for integer? 

Ah i see, you can only have 0 and 1 as value of a 'group attribute'.. Either in the group, or not. A group is not like a 'real' attribute. Right?

Still curious if someone knows why they say you can refer with @foo to a group.

Edited February 26, 2019 by DévinOdforce

[anim]

37 minutes ago, DévinOdforce said:

Still curious if someone knows why they say you can refer with @foo to a group.

looks like a typo to me, I think it should have been: using @name=foo is similar to creating a group foo and referring to it using foo

as in the group fields you refer to groups just by name