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[ssalogel]

Hi guys!

I was making my first program tonight, and althought everything should work, I can't make the functions work.

all the code, if repeated all throughout the program, works, but it's terribly inefficient if I want to change something. So I decided to put things in function.

Ho and behold! I now get 338 errors at the "while" in each function, while they work outside of it. Here's the pastebin if someone want to take a look: http://pastebin.com/vNuYNQTK


thanks!

[theoriginalbit]

I don't see how this worked before...

line 3 you have While instead of while... Lua is case sensitive
line 6 should be timeUp = timeUp + 1
line 12 you have the operator != in lua not equals is ~=
line 14 should be timeUp = timeUp - 1

[ssalogel]

uh. most of these correction are made in my program... must have pastebin the wrong one --'

case sensitive though, hadn't catch that one.

and by saying that they all worked, I meant that I had tested the concept (as in, a while detect then this and that, does it work)


tried the correction, now it's expecting a "do" on line 12... which already has a "do" >_<

http://pastebin.com/ASAvjf9m

edit: forgot to initialise timeUp. do they have a default or do they just take a "random" value, as in real life? initialising timeUp at 0 gets rid of the "do" expectation

now it's expecting an "=" on line 14... which already got one...

[theoriginalbit]

ssalogel, on 16 January 2013 - 04:47 PM, said:

and by saying that they all worked, I meant that I had tested the concept (as in, a while detect then this and that, does it work)

So logic test then...

ssalogel, on 16 January 2013 - 04:47 PM, said:

edit: forgot to initialise timeUp. do they have a default or do they just take a "random" value, as in real life?

yep just about to say that... nope, they are nil...

line 13 you are missing the () at the end of the function call

[ssalogel]

Thank you! those parenthesis were the only things missing!

it works now

so, need to be more carefull next time

[theoriginalbit]

ssalogel, on 16 January 2013 - 04:52 PM, said:

Thank you! those parenthesis were the only things missing!

it works now

so, need to be more carefull next time

Its ok, it happens to the best of us