Re: Pong in SDL

drose2211:

I've not used SDL, and you don't provide enough context for me to be sure. But looking at just the bit of code you presented, I'd guess one of:

Perhaps you meant $app_add_show_handler?, Or maybe
A previous line isn't complete and perl detected the syntax error here instead of a few lines earlier?

I then took a look at the cpan page for SDL and noticed the link to the book. A quick search for add_show_handler finds that exact bit of code (sans comments) on page 52. I thought you were using the '>' to indicate the location of the syntax error, but in fact the book shows a '>' symbol there. I expect that's a syntax error right there.

Looking around in the text, I'm thinking they made a transposition error and it should be:

$app->add_show_handler(
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Where the '>' at the end of the line should be moved left. If so, then they've made the same mistake on page 56 (and possibly elsewhere).

Update: Tweaked the first line to make it read better.

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Re^2: Pong in SDL by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 30, 2017 at 22:41 UTC
That's probably because the pod `C<$app->add_show_handler(>` [download] renders as `$app-add_show_handler(>` [download] and should be written correctly as `C<< $app->add_show_handler( >>` [download] ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Pong in SDL by drose2211 (Sexton) on Dec 01, 2017 at 00:01 UTC
You were correct. The '>' was causing the syntax error. It needed to be written as $app->add_show_handler instead and that fixed the problem. Thanks for the help!	[reply]