What does "SyntaxError: Unexpected token function" mean?

chrisjj

I'm getting it on http://studio.sketchpad.cc with a program that does not contain the string "function".

Chrisir

Link not correct

Show complete link of your sketch

chrisjj

Link not correct

Works fine here.

Show complete link of your sketch

I'm not asking for the cause in a given program. I'm asking for the meaning. I can't even parse that error message as English. "token function" makes no sense, assuming both words are the nouns.

koogs

The unexpected token has the value 'function'. Probably means that you are missing a closing } somewhere. But we need to see the code (especially as you say the code doesn't contain the word 'function')

koogs

Works fine here.

It's asking me to register. I'm not going to register. There's also nothing in the link to identify a particular program, is probably using cookies that we don't have.

chrisjj

The unexpected token has the value 'function'.

Thanks. Then this error message is erroneous. There's no such token in the source.

Probably means that you are missing a closing } somewhere.

It runs fine in Processing 3.2.1 desktop, Java mode. JS not an option here: https://i.imgur.com/43X1B0B.png

chrisjj

There's also nothing in the link to identify a particular program

Correct. It IDs the platform - as intended.

jeremydouglass

@chrisjj -- re:

Correct. It IDs the platform - as intended.

You will get much better feedback if you share your code, specifically (or even better, an MCVE with the same error) -- for example, pasting it here. Identifying a web hosting platform in general does not do much to help solve your specific problem.

jeremydouglass

Then this error message is erroneous. There's no such token in the source.

No. There is no such token in your portion of the source -- which will be combined with things like the processing-js JavaScript library. If you left off a closing brace, your portion flows incorrectly right on into the next bit.

A quick google of this error shows that it is encountered by many Javascript programmers across a variety of different platforms and libraries, from JQuery to Server.js. It has nothing to do with http://studio.sketchpad.cc specifically -- your confidence that identifying the platform was all that was needed was misplaced.

• https://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+"Unexpected+token+function"

As @koogs pointed out, the thing most encountering this error have in common is that they accidentally left out a closing brace on a function.

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Sharing your code makes these simple problems easier to solve without wasting too much of everyone's time.