Bug - Not A Bug boolean use_skill( skill to_use ) doesn't actually return a boolean

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PaladinWhite

Member

• Mar 26, 2015

• #1

The wiki lists:
boolean use_skill( skill to_use )

However, when I try to do this in a consult script:

Code:

void main(int round, monster foe, string page) {
    if(!use_skill($skill[Fist of the Mummy])) {
        print("Failed to use Fist of the Mummy!");
    }
}

... I get "!" operator requires a boolean value (test.ash, line 2)

Did this function get changed sometime after the wiki page was last updated? Is there a good reason it's no longer returning a boolean? If not, can it be changed back?

 

lostcalpolydude

Developer

Staff member

• Mar 26, 2015

• #2

Check out "ashref use_skill" to see that it returns a buffer (someone should update the wiki), which I will respond to your other post to explain how that's exactly what you want.

 

Bale

Minion

• Mar 26, 2015

• #3

lostcalpolydude said:

(someone should update the wiki)

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Information is on the wiki. It could be made clearer at the top of the page though, before both the "normal use" and "in-combat consulting" headers that it returns a buffer when used during combat.

 

Last edited: Mar 26, 2015

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heeheehee

Developer

Staff member

• Mar 26, 2015

• #4

Oi, I promise that wasn't me!

Aside, that claim has been there for a few years. Strange how nobody noticed it earlier...

edit: Bale, the wiki info is just straight-up wrong. I'm in the middle of fixing the page to at least make sense.

 

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PaladinWhite

Member

• Mar 26, 2015

• #5

Thanks for the help, lostcalpolydude, and the edit, heeheehee. Totally my fault for just skimming the page instead of actually reading it. I haven't run across a wiki page that had multiple forms of the function listed throughout, rather than together at the top.