"Either" macro inside another "either" macro?

EpicMario99

I'm sure the answer to this is insanely simple, but I can't quite do it.

I'm trying to put an "Either" macro inside another "Either" macro, as the subject says. To give you an idea of what I mean, here's an example:

A (either: "bolt of lightning", "(either: "large", "huge", "giant") fireball") flies out of the wand.

As you can see, I want it to say either "bolt of lightning" or "fireball," with either "large," "huge," or "giant" in front of "fireball" if it comes up as such. Is there a way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

greyelf

You are trying to use double quotes to do two things in the "(either: "large", "huge", "giant") fireball" part of the example:

1. the quotes at the start / end of the whole part indicate that it is a string value.
2. the quotes around each parameter of the (either:) macro indicate each is a string value

The issue is that Harlowe parses/sees that part like so:

a. "(either: " (=> a string value)
b. large (=> an unknown identifier)
c. ", " (=> a string value)
d. huge (=> an unknown identifier)
e. ", " (=> a string value)
f. giant (=> an unknown identifier)
g. ") fireball" (=> a string value)

You can fix this by using a single quote to indicate each of the parameters is a string.
So your example would now be:

(either: "bolt of lightning", "(either: 'large', 'huge', 'giant') fireball")