ZScript: Unable to dereference left side of...

[Player701]

Trying to compile the following ZScript will make GZDoom produce an error message:

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version "3.4"

class Test
{
    vector2 GetVector()
    {
        return (0, 0);
    }
    
    double GetX()
    {
        return GetVector().X;
    }
}

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Script error, "zscript.txt:ZSCRIPT" line 12:
Unable to dereference left side of X

However, this will work:

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version "3.4"

class Test
{
    vector2 GetVector()
    {
        return (0, 0);
    }
    
    double GetX()
    {
        let v = GetVector();
        return v.X;
    }
}

If I need only the X (or Y) component of the vector and there is no need to use it elsewhere, then I don't need a variable to store it. Therefore, I think this is a bug and the first example should compile.

[Graf Zahl]

This is a known limitation of how function calls work. Don't expect any quick results here.

[Player701]

This is a known limitation of how function calls work. Don't expect any quick results here.

I see. I can live with this, of course, I just wanted to report seemingly inconsistent behavior that I noticed.

Another thing I noticed is the apparent inability to declare multiple variables and assign them to a multi-value returning function in one line of code, but in this case I can't even guess what the syntax for that should be. I suppose this was never planned in the first place. I haven't seen a lot of use for this kind of functions in my code anyway...