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Hi all,
I was just on the Loop reference page:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Loop
 When I tried the code example, I found the code wouldn't compile!
So I changed the code to this an it works!
Maybe someone should change that page to a working example?

Code:

int buttonPin = 3;

// setup initializes serial and the button pin
void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
}

// loop checks the button pin each time,
// and will send serial if it is pressed
void loop()
{
  if (digitalRead(buttonPin) == HIGH)
    Serial.write('H');
  else
    Serial.write('L');

  delay(1000);
}

I am in version 1.0.1 of Arduino, with an UNO board if that matters.
Perhaps the reference page is an old example?

[Reply #1 on:]

Please post the exact error messages you see (remember to enable verbose compiling).

[Reply #2 on:]

Sorry, spotted the error:

beginSerial(9600);

should be:

Serial.begin(9600);

And

serialWrite()

should be

Serial.write()

[Reply #3 on:]

Ah, Yeah, Sorry.
I know whats wrong with it already. I'm just posting for a fix to the site example, because having working examples is important to me. Is there a better means to do this? Is the forum related to the website in such a way that this example might get fixed?

[Reply #4 on:]

Playground pages can be edited by registered users. Don't know about reference pages. I guess not... But hopefully some site admin will notice this thread and fix that page. 

[Reply #5 on:]

I just realized that the pages on http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage
are inluded in the source package under: arduino/reference. Except HomePage is index.html.
I checked, and the loop example is wrong there too.
Is that a topic for the webmaster or the source code dev team?

[Reply #6 on:]

This is an old legacy of the first version of the Arduino language!
Fixed, thanks for noticing!