Can't find variable: random

timsamoff

Hi everyone,

Having an odd problem as of late (using Twine 2.1.1)

I have a common expressions:

(set: $variableName to random(0,10))

~or~

(set: $someVariable to $someVariable - random(0,10))

And both throw up this error:

Can’t find variable: random

I’ve used this syntax plenty of times without error, and not I can’t figure out what’s wrong.

Thanks!

Chapel

Looks like your using the SugarCube random() function instead of Harlowe's (random:) macro.

You should probably try something like:

(set: $var to (random: 10))

If the lower bound is 0, you can omit it, by the way.

timsamoff

Weird, this was working in Harlowe previously… :-/

Just checked this, though, and it does work (thank you!). But the macro does, in fact, require two parameters to work without error:

(set: $var to (random: 0, 10))

Chapel

Heh. Maybe I'm mixing up sugarcube and harlowe now.

greyelf

Chapel wrote: »

Heh. Maybe I'm mixing up sugarcube and harlowe now.

No there is a bug in Harlowe and it was discovered before in another question on this forums, where I asked the person asking the question to open a new issue on the Harlowe project repository so that it's developer could know about the problem and it seem like the questioner decided not to do so.

@timsamoff: Could you open a issue related to the problem you found with (random:)'s second parameter not being optional.

timsamoff

Done.

https://bitbucket.org/_L_/harlowe/issues/87/random-macro-requires-two-variable