How to use either: to display a set of choices.(Harlowe)

robosnacks · October 2015

I'm trying to get a passage that gets revisited to offer the player a randomized set of options that lead to the same destination. This seems right, but it throws an ILLEGAL error when I run it. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Ex:

You see two choices.
(either:("Choose Red or Blue"[[Red pill->SceneX]][[Blue pill->SceneY]]),("Choose Green or Purple"[[Green pill->SceneY]][[Purple pill->SceneX]])

I'm still getting my head wrapped around the logic of (x) vs [x] vs x in Harlowe as it compares to javascript, actionscript etc:

myFunction
{
   if()
   {
     then...
   }
   elseIf()
   {
     then...
   }
   else
   {
      otherwise...
   }
}

robosnacks · October 2015

UPDATE: Managed to get rid of the ILLEGAL error but now the compiler simply gives an unexpected token ] error.

(either:("Choose Red or Blue"[Red pill->SceneX][Blue pill->SceneY]),("Choose Green or Purple"[Green pill->SceneY][Purple pill->SceneX]))

Unexpected token ]►
This error message was reported by your browser's Javascript engine. I don't understand it either, but it usually means that an expression was badly written.

robosnacks · October 2015

greyelf · October 2015

Try the following:

{
(if: (random: 1,2) is 1)[
Choose Red or Blue [[Red pill->SceneX]][[Blue pill->SceneY]]
](else:)[
Choose Green or Purple [[Green pill->SceneY]][[Purple pill->SceneX]]
]}

Markup links start with a and end with a like the following:

[[Link Text->Target Passage Name]]
[[Target Passage Name<-Link Text]]

Hooks start with a [ and end with a ] and come in two general types:
a. Named

|hookname>[contents of named hook]
[contents of named hook]<hookname|

b. Associated: A hook that is associated with something like a macro

(if: $var is "value)[contents of the associated hook]

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