I'm getting a ParseError and I dont know why

New to Julia
1

I’m writing a function and I keep getting this error message:

LoadError: ParseError:
# Error @ ./mixed-juices.jl:52:14
   if length(orders) < 1
#            ┌───────
       time left = 0
   end
#──┘ ── Expected `end`

What am I doing wrong??? I added an ‘end’ where its needed??? New to Julia please help.

2

Perhaps you forgot an underscore?

This works fine:

julia> if length(orders) < 1
           time_left=0
       end
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3

Ph yeah thanks

4

For my own edification is this part of the error message:

#            ┌───────
       time left = 0
   end
#──┘ ── Expected `end`

saying “the end at the right end of the square bracket was expected at the left end of that bracket, i.e. after time”?

5

It’s clearer with colour (and without Discourse text formatting screwing up the alignment a bit) I think:

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It’s marking that part of the code as unexpected.

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6

Ah right, the bracket doesn’t actually end on the end - makes sense, thanks.