Can't put Sendmessage to work.

hey guys,

I have been trying to make a melee system where a sphereoverlap will tell me if there is any target in range, and if he is in range I'll test the distance as the sphereoverlap is not 100% accurate and if the distance checks out I'll send a message to the enemy to run the "DamageDeal" function, but for some reason it doesn't identify a receiver and never send the message.

Here's a bit of the code for melee that is supposed to send the message:

 var collisions : Collider[] = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, range);
         for (var hit : Collider in collisions) 
         {
         
           
            if (hit && hit.tag == "enemy")
            { 
                 
             
             dist = Vector3.Distance(hit.transform.position, transform.position);
             
             Debug.Log(dist);
             Debug.Log("Step 2");
             if (dist <= range)
             {
             Debug.Log("Step 3");
             
             hit.gameObject.SendMessage("DamageDeal", dmg, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
             
             }
     
         }

and here's the code on the enemy:

 var currentHealth : int = 0;
 var maxHealth : int = 100;
 
 function Star() {
 
 currentHealth = maxHealth;
 }
 
 
 function Update () {
 
 if ( currentHealth <= 0)
     Destroy(gameObject); 
 }
 
 
 function DamageDeal (dmg : int)
 {
  Debug.Log("Step 4");
 currentHealth -= dmg; 
 
 }

What am i doing wrong?