The Weird and The Wonderful

What, checking for null is to sophisticated for you? :) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

so, for(int i=0; i<source.length;> { result[i] = source[i]; source[i].~object(); result[i].~object(); } return result; Makes sense to you? I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

I'd like to see some empirical evidence that programmer's from India are worse programmers before a comment like that. Actually, that subcontracted programmers in India are worse than subcontracted programmers generally. (That was meant as a comment to Rob Parker's post) modified on Monday, July 14, 2008 5:54 AM

Probably the bold text should be in all capital and font size 36! :laugh:

Depends on what you mean by a "normal" cast... 1. If you mean a C-style cast (ie: (uint32) <something> ), then my answer would be that the code is C++ and the correct thing to do is to use the new style casts provided by the C++ language. They are there for a good reason. 2. If you mean, why did I not just allow implicit casting to uint32 by the compiler, it's because assigning a double value to an unsigned long produces a warning message ('possible loss of data') depending on the warning level set for the compilation. Since I compile at the higher warning levels and will see the warning, and have a policy of not allowing warnings from my code, I do the explicit cast. The issues I touched on above are very well described and explained at this site: C++ FAQ Lite. This is a great site for beginners and seasoned c++ programmers.

Zani Jnior wrote: I still don't know what she wanted with Beats me with what she was trying to accomplish :laugh: "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

I keep note of this next time your junior developer is up for a performance review :suss: "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

Hmmm, I always thought it should be along the lines of: private static bool isEven(int i) { return ((i % 1) == 0); } "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

Nothing too bad there. One of the most "elegant" pieces of code I wrote in college was done after pounding down a fifth of tequila :-\ It was an amazing piece of work that worked very well. "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

Oops... "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

Megidolaon wrote: It's quick & dirty but it does it's job and for a single line of XML I think it's ok. That's what I thought until I was passed some text with values that needed to be encoded. Like < and & and even a Ctrl-C :omg: I have since worked up a class to make it easier and hide the details.

yvind Bratland wrote: We don't work together anymore I bet that's a good thing :-D "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

you mean they didn't want 4294967294 copies??? (till it reached zero again) -Spacix All your skynet questions[^] belong to solved I dislike the black-and-white voting system on questions/answers. X|

I'd just like to say "then don't do it". Remember that cat! Take a chill pill, Daddy-o .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

Tom Delany wrote: I still think it would not have killed them to use a few more lines of code and written it a bit less obtusely. Probably. :) xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

PIEBALDconsult wrote: Probably didn't realize he could do ddl_Operator.DataTextField = ("description").ToString() ; or maybe.. ddl_Operator.DataTextField = ("description").ToString().ToString().ToString().ToString().Trim() ; :) -- www.domagoj.net

It seems assigning the value of an incremented variable to itself overrides the increment operation. If not, it wouldn't actually matter in which order the operations are executed as the result would be the same: increment comes first: i = 0 // i = 0 i++ = 1 // i = 1 i = i // i = 1 result: 1 assignment comes first i = 0 // i = 0 i = i // i = 0 i++ // i = 1 result: 1

Sometimes using compound string keys is the only way to maintain data between multiple systems / instances where there is no shared system key (and no reason to force such a situation). That said, you would hope the individual elements which were used to generate the keys are available as individual columns also to give good performance for queries... AJ

That made my day! :laugh:

Heh, I do about the same. Especially since the Microsoft documentation is a bad joke as it doesn't actually contain any more information than the tooltips in VS. And the vast majority of articles on websites like this one or in books, which aren't about the basics of the basics, rely too much on the context. If you want to know more about class x, the articles usually don't provide much information on the general usage and behavior but only in the specific context of the example, which barely ever has the slight similarity to do with what you need it for. Also, the vast majority of all programming exams consist of scribbling on paper. If not, they usually consist of doing a project and sending in the result. Paper is okay, at least if the reviewer isn't too strict. Subtracting too many points for missing semicolons and such is just stupid. Anyway, the topic really belongs here. Sounds like college/University the creator attends teaches a lot of bad practices.