| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
BASIC Syntax Error
OK let's set the stage. It's been 8 years since I last did some
real "creative" programming (Macro-11, RSX and 11/70's) and I've
had my AMIGA running for just over 1 month. Just for a laugh I thought
I'd try some BASIC stuff but have come upon an apparent syntax error
that's just driving me mad. Example as follows:
SUB Ticker STATIC
SHARED .....
[blah blah blah]
END SUB
Start:
[blah blah blah]
ON TIMER(1) GOSUB Ticker
TIMER ON
[blah blah blah]
What am I trying to do? Simple, use subroutine Ticker to process
1 second ASTs. If it works or not is unimportant at this time, I
can't get past a SYNTAX error that claims UNDEFINED Subroutine.
I've read the books, I've looked thru the mags and I've quickly
searched the notes file for a similar situation, but no joy.
-- Help, Doug.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1671.1 | Subroutine Sorrows | RAVEN1::EVERHART | Fri Sep 09 1988 16:58 | 10 | |
I think I've found your problem. AmigaBASIC has two distinct types
of subroutines. 1. Traditional BASIC subroutines, and 2. Real
Subroutines. You are trying to use both at the same time in your
program, which doesn't work. When you set up a subroutine using
the SUB statement, it becomes an actual command. To correct your
problem, change the GOSUB Ticker part to just plain old Ticker.
I also suggest that you put all subroutines after the main program.
(I think it looks better, and I know it works that way)
Chris
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