Spent time looking for a syntax error that isn't.

I don't use zorro, but anyway.. your using var inside the function, which may cause an error if those are engine predefined.

try like this:

Zorro is different.
http://zorro-trader.com/manual/en/tutorial_func.htm

It's just different syntax combinations

My solution holds true to another situation, however from your question I was mislead to believe that near and far were engine predefined (Not user defined).



I just attempted to find them in the manual and can't find them - which suggests to me that you are defining those vars which nulls my first post.

That is indeed a strange error since that should work if you're defining them.

What if you made those variables global instead of local? still get an error like that?

As much as I'm enticed by locked safes I'll think I'll leave this one alone.

near and far are reserved words in Windows C, going back to DOS days. They do indeed not make much sense in modern Windows systems, so we'll remove them from the compiler in the next update.

Of course I searched for [c reserved words] and looked at GNU C documentation. Of course Windows has its own reserved words. I didn't think to look there.