We always use "i" as a loop counter...
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...so lets make it global. This was the answer of a "Technical Consultant" that I worked with many years ago. All of his loops were for i = 1 to 10 next i. This was VB 3 - so some time ago! To save himself the effort of dim i as integer at the beginning of every function he wanted to use "i" he just made it a global. I can't blame him too much - he was a COBOL programmer who had made the leap to VB. It made for some surprisingly subtle bugs! Needless to say that I removed it after having to try quite hard to show him the benefits (I was a junior C++ programmer at the time).
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...so lets make it global. This was the answer of a "Technical Consultant" that I worked with many years ago. All of his loops were for i = 1 to 10 next i. This was VB 3 - so some time ago! To save himself the effort of dim i as integer at the beginning of every function he wanted to use "i" he just made it a global. I can't blame him too much - he was a COBOL programmer who had made the leap to VB. It made for some surprisingly subtle bugs! Needless to say that I removed it after having to try quite hard to show him the benefits (I was a junior C++ programmer at the time).
We must have worked with the same guy! I once worked on a VB program with a couple of hundred global variables. When i complained to the original developer he said, "What's wrong with that?" Funny, this guy was an author of multiple VB books. Bill Selznick Bits 2 Systems LLC bselznick@bits2systems.com
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...so lets make it global. This was the answer of a "Technical Consultant" that I worked with many years ago. All of his loops were for i = 1 to 10 next i. This was VB 3 - so some time ago! To save himself the effort of dim i as integer at the beginning of every function he wanted to use "i" he just made it a global. I can't blame him too much - he was a COBOL programmer who had made the leap to VB. It made for some surprisingly subtle bugs! Needless to say that I removed it after having to try quite hard to show him the benefits (I was a junior C++ programmer at the time).
many years ago I saw the same years ago in a FORTRAN prog, as you say some of the bugs this introduced were interesting. Perhaps this guy used to work in England?
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...so lets make it global. This was the answer of a "Technical Consultant" that I worked with many years ago. All of his loops were for i = 1 to 10 next i. This was VB 3 - so some time ago! To save himself the effort of dim i as integer at the beginning of every function he wanted to use "i" he just made it a global. I can't blame him too much - he was a COBOL programmer who had made the leap to VB. It made for some surprisingly subtle bugs! Needless to say that I removed it after having to try quite hard to show him the benefits (I was a junior C++ programmer at the time).
Had this man not heard of
DefInt? :laugh: (Worst keyword ever - except perhapsAs Any!)'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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...so lets make it global. This was the answer of a "Technical Consultant" that I worked with many years ago. All of his loops were for i = 1 to 10 next i. This was VB 3 - so some time ago! To save himself the effort of dim i as integer at the beginning of every function he wanted to use "i" he just made it a global. I can't blame him too much - he was a COBOL programmer who had made the leap to VB. It made for some surprisingly subtle bugs! Needless to say that I removed it after having to try quite hard to show him the benefits (I was a junior C++ programmer at the time).
Hal Angseesing wrote:
...so lets make it global.
:wtf: I am cringing at the very thought of that! :laugh: The largest application (written in C) I ever worked on had more global variables than I bothered to count. I was not allowed to create the original but I was the one who had to fix it for release to the public. When I examined the original code, for the first time, I found a dozen ways to crash the system within 15 minutes of opening the sources files, what a mess. :omg: Do not worry! The finished product worked just as required and would no longer crash the system if looked at it wrong. ;)
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