For loop horror

Nemanja Trifunovic

Switch to a language that does not have loops (Haskell, for instance) and you won't have these problems any more :)

jhwurmbach

cp9876 wrote:

VC6 for example promoted the loop index to scope outside the loop.

That is one of many reasons why VC6 is regarded as extremely braindead... In fact it isn't a C++ compiler. Just a compiler that compiles a language looking a lot like C++...

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Dewm Solo

Oh my god....and I was looking ....and looking....and looking.... The conditional statement was fine....and I couldn't find it at all....keep looking and reading all the comments here. Couldn't find it. I was about to give up and ask when BLAM!!!!! I saw it...there... That never happened to me. Luckily! I've done similar though and lost a good 3~4 hours of time trying to figure it out. I am actually surprised that this compiles though...and runs. Shouldn't the compiler complain about this?

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Simon Capewell

Dammit, I had to stick this in the IDE and debug it to work out what the hell was wrong with this. I think I've been doing a little too much ASP maintenance today :sigh:

Chris Losinger

same here

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emiaj

me too, then i saw it, the bug is on *beeeeeeeeep!* right there :)

Thea Ganoe

*beeeep* what's wrong...can't say "semicolon" ???

caridad

Jimmanuel

Dewm Solo wrote:

Shouldn't the compiler complain about this?

No, it's perfectly valid to stuff all of the loops processing into the ( ; ; ) of a for statement and create a loop with no explicitly defined code block. This has it's uses, but I always just enjoyed using it to obfuscate my code :)

Llasus

:laugh: nice one! actually it did! :laugh:

Llasus

I've been coding for about 5 years of my life. Maybe its more of the experience though. Since I haven't really encountered this until last time. :D

Andy Brummer

I didn't get it until Marc's comment about the body only running once.

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DavidNohejl

Dewm Solo wrote:

I am actually surprised that this compiles though...and runs. Shouldn't the compiler complain about this?

Yeah. While it should of course compile, I'd want this warning: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9x19t380(vs.80).aspx[^]

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leppie

I had to look for help :)

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Dewm Solo

Indeed! Right on the button.

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snorkie

I was starting to get mad at this code, thinking it is one of those "inside" jokes where everybody laughs until you start laughing, then they laugh harder cause there is no joke. Nobody said what the problem was. Then after reading all the comments, I went back and reviewed it again. I found the issue! Funny how it never shows up till the end. Hogan

Llasus

yes, just like the code when you encounter it. wasn't funny until you end up looking at it for 30 or so minutes and seeing that the semicolon was the problem. :D

CPallini

When happened to me, I thought for a (long) while about a compiler bug, before finding the ****** semicolon. :)

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Lars Wadefalk

took me about five seconds to see the error. maybe I've stumbled into most shit already.

Larswad