ZScript: Cannot initialize non-scalar variable

[Player701]

This error message sometimes appears when trying to declare and initialize a local variable using type inference. For example:

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class Test
{
    void TestFunc()
    {
        let p = players[consoleplayer];
    }
}

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Script error, "zscript.txt:ZSCRIPT" line 5:
Cannot initialize non-scalar variable p here

On the other hand, this works fine:

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class Test
{
    void TestFunc()
    {
        PlayerInfo p = players[consoleplayer];
    }
}

It appears this happens when the declared type of the assigned value is prefixed with "@". For example, some global variables (in "struct _") are declared like this.

[Graf Zahl]

It tries to use the source's type, which is not assignable. Unfortunately not easy to fix.