A simple JASS question

[kallieblakie]

just a simple question.

local location Position = GetTriggeringUnitLoc()

Does this leak?

 

[Uberplayer]

It does not leak, as it gives a syntax error:

local location Position = GetUnitLoc(GetTriggerUnit())

Even that doesn't leak, if you remove it properly.

call RemoveLocation(Position)
set Position = null

 

[kallieblakie]

what's syntax error?

 

[Chjoodge]

That is that your code is not just doing something you don't want it to, but that it is not even properly understandible to the WE. Writing:

local location Position = GetTriggeringUnitL0c()

...is just as understandible to the WE as

loxal l0c4710N p051710n = G3tTr1~GG~3R1nG_Pwnzingz|_|ni7Loc()

...as there is no GetTriggeringUnitLoc() function that the WE would recognize. However, there is GetUnitLoc(), which expects a unit inside its parentheses, and GetTriggerUnit(), which you can use just for that purpose.

local location Position = GetUnitLoc(GetTriggerUnit())

 

[Doom-Angel]

the syntax is what reads the code you wrote and compile it into the system and if you made errors the syntax won't be able to compile it eventually causing a syntax error
clear enough?