Links not Working withing If functions in Harlowe

Nivea

I am pretty new to Twine, but i have looked in lots of tutorials and it never comes up or is mentioned as a Problem:

I want to have a Stituation, where the Player can make a decision early in the Game to pick up an item or leave it.
Later on in the Story it will effect his decisions, by making different options aviable. I just dont want to copy the paths and make two out of them, just for that little change. is there a way to solve that problem?

here is what my code looks like:

Would you dare to steal it?
next room stole or [[no|next room left]

Then in the two next room versions a variable ($stole) will be changed, and the paths will lead together again.

Later it will ask for it like that:

(if: $stole = 1)[ You were not Loyal! You need to go to Prison now!]
(if: $stole = 0)Market on!]

Sadly the options dont show up and just give out an Error. any Ideas what could be wrong?

TheMadExile

You're using one of the assignment operators (=) when you should be using one of the equality operators (is, ==, ===). For example:

(if: $stole is 1)[ You were not Loyal! You need to go to [[Prison]] now!]
(else-if: $stole is 0)[ [[Carry|Market]] on!]

Though, honestly, if $stole is meant to be boolean (i.e. only two states, either the player stole something or they did not), then you'd be better off using actual booleans. For example:

→ Setting $stole to true, when you've stolen something.
(set: $stole to true)

→ The conditional check.
(if: $stole)[ You were not Loyal! You need to go to [[Prison]] now!]
(else:)[ [[Carry|Market]] on!]

Nivea

Thanks!!! i didn't catch that mistakte