syntax error??!

[christorb]

Hi all, I'm just getting started with ChucK as an audio and technology student at uni. I've been using miniAudicle but I've run into a problem...

I'm literally going through the online tutorial and typing in the code, however when I try to run the patch I'm being told that there's a syntax error on line 2 char 1. As far as I can tell there's nothing wrong with it.

All I'm trying to run is this piece of simplicity:

1. SinOsc s => dac
2. while( true )
3. {
4. 2::second => now;
5. }

Whenever I run the examples that came with miniAudicle they work without a hitch, so I really don't understand what the problem is! In fact, whenever I use the line 'while( true )' in any patch I'm writing myself I get a syntax error from it, but like I said, if I've loaded up an example with that line in it it just seems to work!! Am I missing something obvious here?

Cheers guys,

Chris

[Inventor]

Hi and welcome to the forum. You need a semicolon at the end of line 1. The console window will report the following line number when you leave out a semicolon for some reason, and this is common to every semicolon-deliniated language that I have ever programmed.

Don't feel foolish, I'm a fairly experienced programmer and have been coding ChucK for over two years, yet I occasionally make this same mistake!

Les

[christorb]

Ah, that was exactly it! Thanks for the reply - though I feel kind of stupid now :S!! I got so hung up on the second line that I wasn't paying attention to anything else!
Many thanks again, now onwards with ChucK

[Blue Hell]

[Kassen]

Indeed. And this is good as it can be useful to break up statements in code over several lines. This is a good idea for long statements that contain several more or less independent parts, for example more complicated "if" statements. Like this;