'Open' - undeclared identifier - algorithmic-trading

Question

Does somebody know why this code inside a .mqh file throws the error 'Open' - undeclared identifier?
It seems like Open, Close, High, Low functions aren´t "detected" in my library. ( Other system functions like Print() are properly loaded ).
bool isBlueCandle( int candle ) export {
return Open[candle] < Close[candle];
}

Answer 1

Not exactly, neither 1:1 copy, nor any MODs, return any error:
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| isBlueCandle TESTs MetaLang.exe: Build 1154 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
bool isBlueCANDLE_TEST( int candle ) export
{
return Open[candle] < Close[candle];
}
bool isBlueCANDLE_TEST2( int candle ) export {
return Open[candle] < Close[candle];
}
bool isBlueCANDLE_TEST3( const int candle ) export {
return Open[candle] < Close[candle];
}
bool isBlueCANDLE_TEST4( const int candle ) export {
return( Open[candle] < Close[candle] );
}
As posted in the comment above, the missing context would help trace the root-cause for your stated issue.
Post a complete copy of the MetaLang.exe Error-description.
Use mouse-right-click + copy ( in MetaLang.exe-Toolbox window on [Error]-page + paste that complete description on StackOverflow )
As an example:
return value of 'OrderModify' should be checked
FOREX_SimpleSAR_EA_msMOD_0.00.mq4 227 19
Just for a clarity sake:
MQL4 recognises both functions ( Print() ) and other objects ( Open ) with specific access-protocol to work with them. In case of functions, one passes "arguments" compatible with the function´s expectations.
Open, High, Volume et al, are not functions, but Arrays, the more, these arrays are special and carefully constructed in the internal MT4-engine, so as to provide a very fast & very efficient manipulation.
MetaQuotes call this a TimeSeries-object, a reversed-stepping-index into
( otherwise normal ) array.
So, your function isBlueCandle() is indeed a function, however, internally it does not call a function, but it compares a cell-values of Open ( the [anIntIndexAsPtrIntoTimeSeriesOrderedARRAY]-*referenced cell )
against a value of Close ( namely the [anIntIndexAsPtrIntoTimeSeriesOrderedARRAY]-*referenced cell ) to construct a bool which the isBlueCandle() function is about to return.