macro that does not work (Metapost)

11 Feb 2020

      Hi,
I have some problems with the following macro :

tex error       > mp error on line 23 in file /home/viserion/macro.tex:

! Missing argument to suite.
<to be read again>
{
<*> suite{
1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
That macro has more parameters than you thought.
I'll continue by pretending that each missing argument
is either zero or null.

! Extra tokens will be flushed.
<to be read again>
{
<*> suite{
1,0}; suite(2,1); ;
I've just read as much of that statement as I could fathom,
so a semicolon should have been next. It's very puzzling...
but I'll try to get myself back together, by ignoring
everything up to the next `;'. Please insert a semicolon
now in front of anything that you don't want me to delete.
(See Chapter 27 of The METAFONTbook for an example.)

[1]

13       enddef;
14     \stopMPcode
15     \starttext
16      On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
17           \startlinecorrection[blank]
18             \startmidaligned
19               \startcombination[2*1]
20                 {\startMPcode
21                   suite{1,0};
22                   suite(2,1);
23 >>               \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
24           \stopcombination
25             \stopmidaligned
26           \stoplinecorrection
27     \stoptext

mtx-context     | fatal error: return code: 256

TeX Output exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Feb 11 11:45:53

##################################################
macro.tex
##################################################

\startMPcode
  def suite (expr n, t) =
  begingroup
   numeric u;
   u := 5mm;
   pickup pencircle scaled 4pt;
   for i=0 upto n:
     for j=0 upto n:
         drawdot (i*u,j*u) shifted(t*u,0) withcolor darkred;
     endfor
   endfor
  endgroup
  enddef;
\stopMPcode
\starttext
 On présente ci-dessous deux suites de dessins.
      \startlinecorrection[blank]
        \startmidaligned
          \startcombination[2*1]
            {\startMPcode
              suite{1,0};
              suite(2,1);
             \stopMPcode}{\tfxx \bf Suite 2}
      \stopcombination
        \stopmidaligned
      \stoplinecorrection
\stoptext

Thank you.
Fabrice

Fabrice Couvreur

Hans Hagen

Fabrice Couvreur

Mikael P. Sundqvist

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