LuaPlayer.can_place_entity wrong number of args

[unobtanium]

Hey,

Can someone explain to me how i use LuaPlayer.can_place_entity{name, position, direction}

Whenever i try to call it, it just says "bad argument #-1 to 'can_place_entity' (Wrong number of arguments)"

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player:can_place_entity({"stone-furnace", {x=0, y=0}, defines.direction.north})
player:can_place_entity("stone-furnace", {x=0, y=0}, defines.direction.north)
player:can_place_entity{"stone-furnace", {x=0, y=0}, defines.direction.north}
player:can_place_entity("stone-furnace", {x=0, y=0})

Am i using it wrong? Is this a bug?
Furthermore, does this take player place distance into account? Or just entity hitboxes?

[DaveMcW]

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player.can_place_entity{name="stone-furnace", position={x=0, y=0}, direction=defines.direction.north}

[unobtanium]

Thanks a lot, that works.
I swear i tested that and it didnt work. My bad!

edit: nevermind, i seem to have used ':' instead of '.'

[bobingabout]

Keep in mind that pragmatically, there is no difference between a function call of function({}) vs function{}, but they are different than function()

In this particular example:
function({}) and function{} both send a single table. They also typically use a name="name", position={x,y}
function() will send 3 different variables.

[Nexela]

What bob i saying is..... If the only argument passed to a function is a literal string or literal table, the parenthesis can be omitted

function "string-arg"
function {}

is the same as

function("string-arg")
function({})