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Scripting the expression parser

As if natural language expressions weren't enough, Ambry can also be controlled via AppleScript. Ambry responds to three AppleScript verbs: evaluate, roll, and total. You can use evaluate to evaluate the value of an expression pass it a string, and it returns a real. Use roll to roll any number of any-sided dice; it returns a list of integers. Finally, total will add all the values in a list, optionally dropping some number of the highest and/or lowest in the series.

• evaluate string -- real
• roll integer d integer -- integer
• total integer [drop highest integer] [drop lowest integer] -- integer

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