Zugg Software :: View topic - [3.12] Local variable alias not compiling

Apprentice Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 166

Hi all, I'm working on a script, where I have the following in alias 1:

#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon {%null}
#LOOPDB @SpellupSubClass {#IF (%val=1) {#IF (%null( %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon))) {#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon {SpellupCast Self '%key'}} {#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon %concat( %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon), ~;SpellupCast Self '%key')}}}
$SpellupToBeRecastTemp=%db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon)
#ALIAS SpSubClass {$SpellupToBeRecastTemp}
#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon %replace( %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon), SpellupCast Self, c)
#SAY %ansi( green, hi)New alias for SpSubClass: %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon)!

and the following in alias 2:

#ALIAS SpellupToBeRecast {%null}
#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon %null
#LOOPDB @SpellupAllSpellsOnMe {#IF (%val=1) {#IF (%null( %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon))) {#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon {SpellupCast Self '%key'}} {#ADDKEY SpellupVar AliasSoon %concat( %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon), ~;SpellupCast Self '%key')}}}
#IF (%null( %db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon))) {#ALIAS SpellupToBeRecast {%null}} {
$SpellupToBeRecastTemp=%db( @SpellupVar, AliasSoon)
#ALIAS SpellupToBeRecast {$SpellupToBeRecastTemp}
SpellupToBeRecast
}

Alias 2 compiles without problem. But for Alias 1, I get this error:

Error compiling script:
invalid local variable: SpellupToBeRecastTemp

Can someone explain to me why I get this error message?

With regards
DanteX

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Copying what you have shown for alias 1, I get no error. It compiles just fine.

The particular error you are getting occurs when a local variable is used before it has been initialized. Local variables can be initialized with a #local statement, or by assigning a value to it, e.g. $SpellupToBeRecastTemp=whatever. You are initializing the variable with the second method--your script should be just fine. Are you absolutely certain that you have copied the alias here as it is in your package? Another thing to check is whether there is another, incorrect, copy of alias 1 somewhere in your packages, which is throwing this error.

Apprentice Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 166

A followup:

In the alias, that contained the non-working code, the last 4 lines were idented with 4 x white space at the beginning of each line.

In the alias that contained the working code, the 2 last lines were identented with 4 x white space, and the lines containing the temp-var, were identented 3 lines. This said, it means that identing lines may result in a non-compiled code.

Both these setups were results of pressing CTRL+M.

When I manually remove all identing, all compile.

//DanteX

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Yes, indenting has meaning in Cmud. Are you certain that the indenting did not get accidentally changed afte doing CTRL-M? I cannot get it to produce the results you report.

Apprentice Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 166

I am 100% sure that CTRL+M reulted in the indenting, since that's what I used because the alias was all in "one line" with ";" as separators all the way, may that original state made it indent wrongly?

I dunno what caused all of my problems... This was on a package imported from zmud, and I've now created a new session and moved on there... It works fine at least after the indenting is fixed.

//DanteX