What are some stupid-useful coding tricks you rely on?
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I totally get what you're saying. Just for clarity though template-instance statics add another dimension to statics because they are not shared between different instantiations of the same template.
template struct foo final {
static int value;
};
......
foo<1>::value = 5;
foo<2>::value = 4;
printf("%d + %d = %d\n",foo<1>::value,foo<2>::value,foo<1>::value+foo<2>::value);
// prints 5 + 4 = 9To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Congratulations, your Witch-ness! You have successfully taught an Old Dog a wonderful new trick! :-\
Software Zen:
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Congratulations, your Witch-ness! You have successfully taught an Old Dog a wonderful new trick! :-\
Software Zen:
delete this;I didn't tell you the downside. You must initialize the statics to avoid a linker error, and I don't know about C++20 but previous versions require declarations like this for statics:
template
int_button*
int_button::m_this = nullptr;To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I didn't tell you the downside. You must initialize the statics to avoid a linker error, and I don't know about C++20 but previous versions require declarations like this for statics:
template
int_button*
int_button::m_this = nullptr;To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I don't think that's a downside, really. I'd expect that to be required initialization, since non-template static members require it.
Software Zen:
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I don't think that's a downside, really. I'd expect that to be required initialization, since non-template static members require it.
Software Zen:
delete this;I'm referring to the nasty syntax required. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Thanks, that was very nice and I accept your apology. I will take a look at the post. I honestly was offering the original code just as an interesting thing. I was probably triggered by your post because I started out in IT back in '91 and since then it has always been a "my code is better than yours" pissing war with Devs. :laugh: I started out in Tech Support and knew I was a slug in the IT world. Worked my way into QA and was there for 5 years or so and remember when this Dilbert came out[^]. Oh, it's funny now. I finally made worked my way into Dev and have been here for about 22 years but I find that Devs are (and have always been) so competitive and are "always right". it just kind of triggers me. When I was in QA if a dev ticked me off, I would just test his code, find a critical bug and then post it Friday afternoon. :laugh:
raddevus wrote:
When I was in QA if a dev ticked me off, I would just test his code, find a critical bug and then post it Friday afternoon.
That is evil. I love it :laugh:
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I was just thinking about this today when I was retooling my IoT button library. I use template-instance statics to get around not being able to pass an argument to an interrupt routine (which must be
void ()) under the Arduino frameworktemplate
class button {
// assign this to "this" on initialization of a class instance
static button* m_this;
// ISR
static IRAM_ATTR void isr() { m_this->... }
};
...like that. It's really useful but it makes me kinda wanna puke too, even though there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, technically speaking, since it doesn't make sense to have two buttons on one pin anyway, and you're not dealing in a pre-emptively threaded environment in 80% of all cases on 80% of all platforms. Template-instance statics (i don't know what else to call them) are something I have to rely on way more than I wish I had to, but I am glad they are there. What's your go to coding technique that nevertheless makes you uncomfortable?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
In C:
a^=b^=a^=b;
...will swap the values of a and b by XORing them a couple of times, assuming a and b are the same size. Works for large data structures just as well as for ints: quite fast, too. Back in the days before proper video cards, this was good for swapping in entire screen contents, or faking sprites or whatever... Note that this doesn't work in C#: you have to go...:
a^=b;
b^=a;
a^=b;...because unlike C, C# uses the original values of the variables throughout the evaluation of the expression, so what happens if you try to run the original statement is that one variable receives the swap, but the other one is garbage. And really, it only works for ints. But it does let you swap the variables without using a third one.
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I was just thinking about this today when I was retooling my IoT button library. I use template-instance statics to get around not being able to pass an argument to an interrupt routine (which must be
void ()) under the Arduino frameworktemplate
class button {
// assign this to "this" on initialization of a class instance
static button* m_this;
// ISR
static IRAM_ATTR void isr() { m_this->... }
};
...like that. It's really useful but it makes me kinda wanna puke too, even though there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, technically speaking, since it doesn't make sense to have two buttons on one pin anyway, and you're not dealing in a pre-emptively threaded environment in 80% of all cases on 80% of all platforms. Template-instance statics (i don't know what else to call them) are something I have to rely on way more than I wish I had to, but I am glad they are there. What's your go to coding technique that nevertheless makes you uncomfortable?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Use Background worker report progress to trigger different conditions on the main thread. *** Ya Ya I know..background workers X| But I didn't architect the project :)
Private Sub Go(myList as list(of String))
bgw1.RunWorkerAsync(me,myList)
End SubPrivate Sub bgw1_DoWork(sender As Object, e As DoWorkEventArgs) Handles bgw1.DoWork
'background thread
Dim myList As List(Of String) = e.Argument
Dim listCount As Integer = myList.Count
'long running process
For i As Integer = 0 To listCount
Dim resultInteger = DoWork(myList(i))
bgw1.ReportProgress(resultInteger,myList(i))
Next
End SubPrivate Sub bgw1_ProgressChanged(sender As Object, e As ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles bgw1.ProgressChanged
'main thread
Dim p As Integer = e.ProgressPercentage
Dim s As String = CStr(e.UserState)
Select Case P
Case 1
lbl1.Text = s
Case 2
lbl2.Text = s
Case Else
lbl1.Text = "Invalid Result for " & s
lbl2.Text = "Invalid Result for " & s
End Select
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raddevus wrote:
What do you think?
I think this "belongs" on one of the technical forums ... but, given the general neglect of many forums, and the free-for-all the Lounge has become, I am just "blowing smoke" :wtf: :)
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I was just thinking about this today when I was retooling my IoT button library. I use template-instance statics to get around not being able to pass an argument to an interrupt routine (which must be
void ()) under the Arduino frameworktemplate
class button {
// assign this to "this" on initialization of a class instance
static button* m_this;
// ISR
static IRAM_ATTR void isr() { m_this->... }
};
...like that. It's really useful but it makes me kinda wanna puke too, even though there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, technically speaking, since it doesn't make sense to have two buttons on one pin anyway, and you're not dealing in a pre-emptively threaded environment in 80% of all cases on 80% of all platforms. Template-instance statics (i don't know what else to call them) are something I have to rely on way more than I wish I had to, but I am glad they are there. What's your go to coding technique that nevertheless makes you uncomfortable?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Always wrap any third party or sufficiently complicated built-in API with your own API. The original API or third party will change or become deprecated in about 10 years. A good rule for code that you expect to last 20 years or more. If you expect a five year life span then it might not be worth it.
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I was just thinking about this today when I was retooling my IoT button library. I use template-instance statics to get around not being able to pass an argument to an interrupt routine (which must be
void ()) under the Arduino frameworktemplate
class button {
// assign this to "this" on initialization of a class instance
static button* m_this;
// ISR
static IRAM_ATTR void isr() { m_this->... }
};
...like that. It's really useful but it makes me kinda wanna puke too, even though there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, technically speaking, since it doesn't make sense to have two buttons on one pin anyway, and you're not dealing in a pre-emptively threaded environment in 80% of all cases on 80% of all platforms. Template-instance statics (i don't know what else to call them) are something I have to rely on way more than I wish I had to, but I am glad they are there. What's your go to coding technique that nevertheless makes you uncomfortable?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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