An amusing error name... "badLeftsideOfAss"

[Switeck]

Basically it was saying I'm a bad coder who made a newbie mistake.

16:26:34.390 [script.javaScript.willLoad]: About to load JavaScript ../AddOns/Auto-ECM 0.1.oxp/Scripts/autoecm_system.js
16:26:34.390 [script.javaScript.exception.badLeftsideOfAss]: ***** JavaScript exception (autoecm_system.js.anon-script): ReferenceError: invalid assignment left-hand side
16:26:34.390 [script.javaScript.exception.badLeftsideOfAss]: ../AddOns/Auto-ECM 0.1.oxp/Scripts/autoecm_system.js, line 24: if(player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_AUTOECM") == "EQUIPMENT_OK" && player.ship.equipmentStatus("EQ_ECM") == "EQUIPMENT_OK" && missionVariables.autoECM = "TRUE") player.consoleMessage("Auto ECM System ready and enabled.",5);
16:26:34.390 [script.javaScript.load.failed]: ***** Error loading JavaScript script ../AddOns/Auto-ECM 0.1.oxp/Scripts/autoecm_system.js -- compilation failed


The if statement was supposed to be comparing values, not setting values...like
missionVariables.autoECM = "TRUE"
...actually does. I should have had == or === not just a single =.

But it doesn't have to be such a @$$ about it. It even suggested the problem was the left cheeky side. Maybe I should've tried to K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) it with my code?

[Commander McLane]

Fun with abbreviations!

(You know, at its core Oolite is a British software. Therefore everything is fine with abbreviating 'assignment'. If for some reason you'd want to abbreviate 'arsenic', however... )

[Smivs]

"badLeftsideOfAss"

Good job it wasn't the other side....that would be a right bummer

[JensAyton]

The identifiers for different types of errors are mechanically reprocessed from SpiderMonkey’s internal identifiers, in this case JSMSG_BAD_LEFTSIDE_OF_ASS. I’m sure someone felt very clever… (There’s also a JSMSG_BAD_DESTRUCT_ASS, which sounds painful.)