help, please

[crisstian]

Tried to burn my first program, (from the David Lincoln's Programming and customizing the picaxe microcontroller, I suppose is one right) page 94:
'LED output
'OPTIONS PICAXE-08


loop:
high 4
pause 500
low 4
pause 500
goto loop

and I received

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"Error: loop without Do"
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Please let me know where I'm wrong (or the book?).
Cristian

Now the Error is:
****************************************
goto loop
^

Error: Syntax error in this line!
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I'm lost, for sure.

 

[nick12ab]

The code was written before 'loop' became a reserved word. The code will work when you change the label 'loop' to something else.

 

[crisstian]

So, which is the right code, please?
All the book is full of 'loop'.

 

[eclectic]

Try

looper:
high 4

pause 500
low 4

pause 500

goto looper

e

 

[crisstian]

It works.
Thank you.
Cristian

 

[westaust55]

David Lincoln did write a second edition of his book.

With that came newer programs. You may find some benefit in having a look at the code related to the new book which is available here:
http://www.lincsoft.com/code.txt
Unfortunately it is one long listing of all the code provided in the second edition so you must cut and paste the section you may find useful.
The old/first edition does based upon past comments on this forum and elsewhere have a few errors in the code listings.