Note to self: Serial.baud(x) vs Serial.baud(var)

It seems that in one of the revisions of the Arduino IDE I was able to do something like this:

int baud = 57600;

void setup() {
Serial.begin(baud);
}

void loop() {
// do stuff here
}

The idea with having the baud rate defined as a variable is that it can be changed quite easily between debugging via a USB serial connection and testing / using via a MIDI connection. However, this no longer seems to work as the serial function does not recognise any data. Instead, this has to be written as:


void setup() {
Serial.begin(57600);
}

void loop() {
// do stuff here
}