Answering myself: pth2 is not a valid variable name. Digits are not allowed.
> On 14 Mar 2020, at 15:45, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wie...@rna.nl> wrote: > > I have this vardef: > > vardef Foo(expr w, h) = > save pth; path pth; > %save pth2; path pth2; > save pic; picture pic; > pth = fullsquare xysized (w, h); > %pth2 = fullsquare xysized (h/4, h/8) > pic := image ( > draw pth; > %draw pth2 shifted (-w/2, -h/4); > % all kind of stuff here > ); > setbounds pic to pth; > pic > enddef ; > > As soon as I uncomment the bold line (first comment) a mtxrun fails. Whatever > I try, a single save statement, etc., I fail in getting a second local > variable. The METAPOST manual is no help. > > The error shown is: > > metapost log > ! Extra tokens will be flushed. > metapost log > <to be read again> > metapost log > 2 > metapost log > Foo->...h;path.pth;save.pth2 > metapost log > > ;path.pth2;save.pic;pictur... > metapost log > <*> ... ; s := Foo(8cm, 2cm) > metapost log > ; draw s; > drawdot center l... > metapost log > > > Why? > > G > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________
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