Ack! *Bangs head against wall*

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ID:193098

Mar 24 2002, 7:37 pm

English

Well, I've spent the last 30-45 minutes trying to make some simple Boot and Ban verbs but couldn't figure out what was wrong. It kept saying, "Error, type mismatch" and I had no idea what it was talking about.

Then I noticed this little line:
var/list/L

see what's missing? The dern little = new() (or = list())!

I haven't done that in so long that I didn't even think to look for it.

I think Dantom needs to add a better error message for that :p

Mar 24 2002, 7:39 pm
Spuzzum	I think Dantom needs to add a better error message for that :p Odd, whenever I forget to initialise a list it simply tells me it can't access null.len or whatever. I think I see what's happening, though -- you're trying to add two lists together, and one of the lists is null.

Mar 24 2002, 7:51 pm In response to Spuzzum
English	Yep, well I was trying to add a mob to the list but it has the same effect. I can see why the error is called what it is but it's just a weird one to spot if you aren't thinking about initialized lists.