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Reserved word or undocumented verb?
2005-12-05, 9:44 AM #1
First the story:

I was cogging along and my cog stopped working. Odd I thought, after alot of frustrating testing on a hunch I renamed my one of my call commands and the accompanying message and it started working again. It didnt matter if the message was declared in symbols or not. I looked in Datamaster and couldnt find any documentation of it, I loaded Parsec and Scribe. Parsec returns the error it does on all custom messages, Scribe found no errors. I figured it's time to throw it to the experts and see if you guys knew this or not.

now the 'bad' word: continue

Example (doesnt work):

Code: 
activated:
                  call continue;
                  Return;
continue:
                  PlaySoundThing(mysound, GetLocalPlayerThing(), 1.0, -1, -1, 128);
                  Return;


Example (this works):
Code: 
activated:
                  call acontinue;
                  Return;
acontinue:
                  PlaySoundThing(mysound, GetLocalPlayerThing(), 1.0, -1, -1, 128);
                  Return;


Anyone encounter this before? Im too lazy to do random testing. Think it does anything? Im guessing continue(); isnt a cog verb because most of those are defined in jk.exe, so its probably a cog keyword or just a something that jams up JK's cogparser.

If its indeed a cog keyword, Im guessing its fuction is or was supposed to be similar to break;
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2005-12-05, 9:51 AM #2
Yeah Im pretty sure its just a cog keyword from its C roots. Like I just tried goto instead of call in cog and that works the same way. You guys probably knew this, hopefully one of those new wiki's you guys are working on will contain this stuff.

Code: 
activated:
                  goto hi;
                  Return;
hi:
                  PlaySoundThing(mysound, GetLocalPlayerThing(), 1.0, -1, -1, 128);
                  Return;
end
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2005-12-05, 2:45 PM #3
Continue is a keyword used inside a loop. Break (a similar keyword) and continue are partially implemented in JK (as far as I know), but they only work in MotS.

What problem does Parsec have with custom messages?
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2005-12-05, 4:20 PM #4
There error was just 'custom message found on line ...."

Dunno, I really dont use parsec. I was just trying to see if it was familiar with the keywords: continue or goto.
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2005-12-05, 4:22 PM #5
Generally I don't think it's a good idea to use any common C/C++ keywords as variable names, if only for readability's sake.
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