Syntax error, unexpected integer constant, expecting ")"

[art3mis]

 

Trying to follow a basic VEX tutorial and in the following line the '0' is highlighted

int addprim(0,"poly");

 

and I get the following error

Syntax error, unexpected integer constant, expecting ")"

I'm on a Mac running 15.5 Apprentice.

AFAIK, my code is correct. Anyone?

[haggi]

int variableName = addprim(0, "poly");

 

[art3mis]

Thanks.

So as a novice I'm discovering you can't simply cut and paste from the official documentation

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini15.5/vex/functions/addprim

 

Ad that error messages in Houdini can be confusing

Edited July 20, 2016 by eco_bach

[haggi]

The description in the docs do not show an example but the function prototype. That means it shows which arguments the function expects and what type it it returns. The error message is confusing just because Houdini tries to interpret what you are writing. So it sees something like this:

int someName(...)

With something like that you normally start the definition of a vex function and vex functions do not allow a constant int as argument (what would be useless anyway). And so the function definition is not correct what leads to this error message.