BYOND Version: 341.877
Operating System: Windows XP
Detailed Problem Description: I was making a proc and I forgot to end my text, I goto compile and it reports problems with other pieces of code that have NOTHING to do with that part of code at all.
Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often? Every Time
In other games? Yes
On other computers? Yes
In other user accounts? Yes
ID:171001
 Nov 23 2004, 12:52 pm
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Nov 23 2004, 1:04 pm
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Jon88
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That's not a bug. You made an error. The compiler is alerting you to the error as best it can, while still attempting to find errors further down.
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That is why you should always investigate the first error... well, first. Most compilers will do this in similar circumstances, because the first error confuses how the rest of the code should be interpretted.
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hrm..that's jacked up, considering how my verbs have nothing to do with my procs at all o_O aiight, just thought it might be since it generated an error for every single line in my verbs file.
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Lenox wrote:
hrm..that's jacked up, considering how my verbs have nothing to do with my procs at all o_O aiight, just thought it might be since it generated an error for every single line in my verbs file. Verbs have a lot to do with proccesses... I think. | |
Well, verbs are somewhat like procs, in a sense, and they can call procs, but mine call none, so therefore have no connection with MY procs.
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Lenox wrote:
hrm..that's jacked up, considering how my verbs have nothing to do with my procs at all o_O aiight, just thought it might be since it generated an error for every single line in my verbs file. Well, you see, when you make certain errors, the compiler trys interpretting similar peaces of coding bsaed on your error. Since, of course, your error was just that, and error, it will view similiar pieces of coding as errors even when they aren't. This commonly occurs with indentation errors, if statements, else statements, and incomplete text. | |
It's not the connection of the verbs and the procs, it's you making the compiler think the whole .dm file was part of a text string that caused the error.
"blah //code here DM sees "blah //code here" And it compiles like that. The first error in the list is usually the one that causes the whole mess. Every compiler I've used does it like that. | |
Ah, I see, how weird..o_O I see how it works now, so the compiler doesn't care, as long as it's in the same project?
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Can we get a mod to please delete this then since it was a false report(Stupidity, in other words) on my part?
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Lenox wrote:
Can we get a mod to please delete this then since it was a false report(Stupidity, in other words) on my part? The problem with that is, if a mod deleted it, then next time a coder had a similar question, it would have to be answered all over again :) Don't feel stupid. I can't think of one resource that explains that anyway. | |
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Soo... A mob is a mobile object, obj = object, atom = A? Turfs, Objects, Mobile Objects. Oh well, I'll just call them their shortened name besides trying to remember the full one. >_> | |
Hell Ramen wrote:
<_< Where did you come up with that one? An atom is an atom is an atom stands for an atom. | |
Noes, what's the "A" in atom stand for? >_>
I think BYOND was meant to make "atom" deal with turfs, objs, mobs, etc. | |
And with my experiences, if you forget to end the "" on a text string or anything, that it will go to the next file in succesion.. Let's say that in your Dream Maker thingy to the left.. you have "Verbs.dm" and right below it you have "Procs.dm" if you didn't in a quotation in "Verbs.dm" the error will carry over to "Procs.dm", even if there is no error, well with the exclusion of something as simple as forgetting a quotation mark, or a parenthesis.. I may not know much, but I have learned that much from my mistakes...
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Kholint wrote:
Come on! An object is not necessarily an obj. Often programmers refer to anything with variables and methods (procs) as an object. I used to confuse the hell out of people by refering to objects and they would assume I meant objs. Recently, I've tried to stick to the more BYOND specific terms of datum or atom. | |