pokeyman posted:

Ah yes, that ancient coding blasphemy. Death to the not operator! All hail empty code blocks! Allah ackbar!

ehnus posted:

Sorry to break it to you but "unless" is redundant as it does the same thing as using if with a negated condition but saves no typing and some (like myself) might even say it does nothing to improve code clarity or comprehension.

Unparagoned posted:

code:

char ddd[4];
for(int i=1; i<=NUMBEROFUNITS; i++)
	{
		
		sprintf(ddd,"%d",i);
		[b]//printf("begining of LOOP");[/b]
		NSString *StemporyUnitInt=[NSString stringWithFormat: @"%s",
[unitOptionsSQL getSqlEntry: aaa select:cc from:bbb where:eee is:ddd]] ;
		printf("\n index %d", i);
		unitOptionList[i]=[StemporyUnitInt intValue];

		
	}

EDIT: Looks like if I put the folowing at the start of the loop all workds fine. It's fustrating trying to find out what the problem is when everything I try fixes it.
char *testtt;
sprintf(testtt,"%d",i);
printf("testtt %s", testtt);

Jargon posted:

Haha when you pick your variable names do you just like hold down the last key like "one-one thousand, two-one thousand"?

That's too hard, you just copy and paste the code you need and then just add another char to the variables aa->aaa.

Inverse Icarus posted:

code:

// checking below me
// no children to right or left
// i am a leaf node

meinstein posted:

ColdPie posted:

Hahaha oh man you should've seen my Tetris clone from high school. Let's just say there were local variables named xxxxx and yyyyy.

Janin posted:

that's not the problem here

Goat Bastard posted:

It's not quite a for-case though, is it? If refresh(1) is called then the pass == 2 stuff gets skipped, and similar for refresh(2).

Note: I am in no way defending this lovely method.

quadreb posted:

Genetic TSP?

Supervillin posted:

I'd just like to see what possible input string could go through those two lines and come out different.

Zombywuf posted:

I see this practise as a big red warning sign.

ehnus posted:

I have no problem with #if 0 ... #endif but it's nearing horror status when it gets checked in.

geetee posted:

Maybe setting myself up for embarrassment, but can you explain how people should use revision control systems?

Lysidas posted:

Commented-out code doesn't affect whether the project builds

royallthefourth posted:

Thanks for clearing that up.

floWenoL posted:

Good point. I'm actually not familiar with the state of decompilers for languages like Java/C#. How readable does "reasonable" look? Are variable names preserved?

MagneticWombats posted:

Couldn't you do something like

code:

 yes | stupidInstall 

ton1c posted:

You know it's funny, a good number of people reading this thread and that reddit thread would probably be guilty of a number of things in this thread. Programming should be more like music, where you compete against yourself rather than bash those who suck, but then nothing would get done.

CanSpice posted:

And if they change the definition of a radian then it only needs to be changed in two places!

A A 2 3 5 8 K posted:

I thought it might be a copy/paste failure but then I thought of how unlikely that would be coming from a PHP enthusiast.

Ugg boots posted:

Whenever I see MUMPS I wonder why people actually write it by hand instead of writing it in another language that gets translated/compiled to MUMPS. I swear that would be one of the first things I tried if I got stuck with lovely language work.

Zombywuf posted:

Hey, guess what my black box does, only mine does it with human eyeballs not units of soulless energy.

You've wandered pretty far from your original complaint through.

Milotic posted:

Or maybe he realised that static class constructors are the real horror?

rjmccall posted:

Sure. On the other hand, if you would naturally give the same well-named label to two different loops in a function, it becomes really easy to make tragic mistakes.

Mista _T posted:

If the aim is readability, then why not black-box the whole test and only offer up the result? I'm probably digging further than I need to in what probably amounts as something trivial, anyway, so I'll just back down from this one.

Avenging Dentist posted:

Labels are local to functions so this is wholly unnecessary.

LockeNess Monster posted:

From a recent conversation:

IT person: the compiler does all math equations anyway

Jonnty posted:

Oh, don't be pedantic, you know what they meant.

LockeNess Monster posted:

What is an array? A contiguous buffer in memory that you can treat as a vector of values?

LockeNess Monster posted:

I mean, depending on the definition of the array the assignment statement "don't use arrays" would have very different implications.

Array could mean associative array, and/or linked list could count as an array as well.

Nomnom Cookie posted:

"Array" is not vague terminology in C, C++, Java, Pascal, or C#. If it's a class in PHP, yeah, you might have a point, but I don't think that was the case.