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  • N Nagy Vilmos

    When you become practised in the art then you simply hold your hands above the keyboard in supplication and the code writes itself out of fear of reprisals. :cool:

    speramus in juniperus

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    Argonia
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    I can only dream of achieving such heights. :sigh:

    Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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    • P Pete OHanlon

      We didn't have IDE's on Unix systems when I started. I'm, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes, I'm old.

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      Sentenryu
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      Well, I'm young and I run away from unix, so there's that :laugh:

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      • P Pablo Aliskevicius

        The compilers I've used give a warning in cases like this. JM2B,

        Pablo. "Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899). "You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).

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        Sentenryu
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        Who looks at warnings? nobody that works with me, sadly :(

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          Who looks at warnings? nobody that works with me, sadly :(

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          OriginalGriff
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          I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

          Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          • T Tsuda Kageyu

            Oops! It was like this:

            // Sometimes carry out the work \
            if (flag)
            {
            SomeWork();
            }

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            Nicholas Marty
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            That's a reason more to use K&R style (or a variation of it)!! :laugh:

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

              Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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              Sentenryu
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              People here don't read error messages, so even if i set that they would just ignore

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

                Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                Lost User
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                Many programmers use "treat errors as warnings" option.

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  I don't - I have "treat warnings as errors" set on my projects to prevent compilation succeeding! :laugh:

                  Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                  Many programmers use "treat errors as warnings" flag.

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                  • S Sentenryu

                    People here don't read error messages, so even if i set that they would just ignore

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                    OriginalGriff
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                    That's the whole point: if you set "treat warnings as errors" then compilation fails until the warning is fixed. You can't run or test you app until you do.

                    Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      And what about those hard core devs who swear by (instead of at) vi? My point wasn't that Notepad++ supports or does not support colourisation. It's that you can't rely on colourisation to indicate problems.

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                      CPallini
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                      Hey man, hats off to vi: it provides syntax colouring as well. And you can rely on colourization. Well, unless you write something like

                      for (n=0; n<100; ++n);
                      {
                      doSomething();
                      }

                      Veni, vidi, vici.

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                      • N Nagy Vilmos

                        When you become practised in the art then you simply hold your hands above the keyboard in supplication and the code writes itself out of fear of reprisals. :cool:

                        speramus in juniperus

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                        CPallini
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                        Yes, we do know PMs have a quite twisted perception of the software development process. ;P

                        Veni, vidi, vici.

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          Hey, I like vi. There are parts of it that I wish were available in Visual Studio. dd for instance. Or 10dd to delete 10 lines. Yes, you can do this using other means in an IDE, but they are all more cumbersome.

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                          Brisingr Aerowing
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                          VsVim[^] might be useful for you. It adds Vim commands to VS.

                          Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            That's the whole point: if you set "treat warnings as errors" then compilation fails until the warning is fixed. You can't run or test you app until you do.

                            Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers --- Serious Sam

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                            Freak30
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                            My old boss once jokingly said that he was still waiting for the "treat errors as warnings" flag. :D

                            The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.

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                            • L Lost User

                              Many programmers use "treat errors as warnings" flag.

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                              Rob Grainger
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                              I just make sure my code compiles without warnings. If I really cannot avoid a warning, I use a pragma to disable a specific warning, with an explanatory comment.

                              "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                              • T Tsuda Kageyu

                                Oops! It was like this:

                                // Sometimes carry out the work \
                                if (flag)
                                {
                                SomeWork();
                                }

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                                Rob Grainger
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                                That's a lousy attempt at obfuscation. Here's a real professional at work: IOCCC[^]. (That is a full hardware emulation of a 1980's PC hardware (much more info in the other files in this folder[^]. Some top aspects: It is 4043 bytes long (half an 8086). "It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU." (edited for spelling)

                                "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                                • R Rob Grainger

                                  That's a lousy attempt at obfuscation. Here's a real professional at work: IOCCC[^]. (That is a full hardware emulation of a 1980's PC hardware (much more info in the other files in this folder[^]. Some top aspects: It is 4043 bytes long (half an 8086). "It manages to implement most of the hardware in a 1980’s era IBM-PC using a few hundred fewer bits than the total number of transistors used to implement the original 8086 CPU." (edited for spelling)

                                  "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                                  Lutoslaw
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                                  Whoa... [^].

                                  Greetings - Jacek

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                                  • P Pete OHanlon

                                    Hey, I like vi. There are parts of it that I wish were available in Visual Studio. dd for instance. Or 10dd to delete 10 lines. Yes, you can do this using other means in an IDE, but they are all more cumbersome.

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                                    Lost User
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                                    I have a vi plugin for visual studio. It's called vsvim, and as far as I remember I installed it in the extension manager gui.

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                                    • B Brisingr Aerowing

                                      VsVim[^] might be useful for you. It adds Vim commands to VS.

                                      Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

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                                      Lost User
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                                      Teach me to comment before reading the whole thread

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                                      • L Lost User

                                        Teach me to comment before reading the whole thread

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                                        Brisingr Aerowing
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                                        Heh. I am not all that used to Vi(m), but this extension seems to be quite powerful.

                                        <voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>

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