Question - Code A lot of errors after new update

[Naoki]

Hi all,

This morning I tried to run my game but just had a bunch of errors.


On the main menu of my game, I'm using global variables to know when the player clicks on one of the buttons "Play", "Options" etc.
So I have:

global.play = 0
global.options = 0
global.howToPlay = 0
global.credits = 0
global.exit = 0

But this morning "global.exit" stopped working. This system has been working for months so I guess it's not working anymore because of the update.
I checked the release notes but can't find the exact part where it indicates this modification. So can you confirm my problem is actually coming from this update?

Thank you.

 

[TsukaYuriko]

The problem in this case is your naming of the variable, not the update. The reason why you're being notified of it might be the update, though - maybe there was no detection for this beforehand.

I'm unsure why this was working in the first place - maybe due to the global prefix inducing a different context - but I can imagine why naming a variable exit is not supposed to be possible, as exit is a reserved keyword and statement. Use a different name.

 

[Naoki]

The problem in this case is your naming of the variable, not the update. The reason why you're being notified of it might be the update, though - maybe there was no detection for this beforehand.

I'm unsure why this was working in the first place - maybe due to the global prefix inducing a different context - but I can imagine why naming a variable exit is not supposed to be possible, as exit is a reserved keyword and statement. Use a different name.

Yes this is what I had to do, I was just curious to know if it was related to the update, even if I understand why it wouldn't work.