Interesting technique used in some Legacy code!
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Well, the good news is it wasn't hidden away in a header file... :omg: If it's any consolation, A FORTRAN compiler I used to work with years, and years ago would accept a constant value as a function parameter, and let you change it at run time. I can't remember FORTRAN syntax any more but it would be similar to:
void MyMethod (ref int i)
{
i = 666;
}
...
Console.WriteLine(42);
MyMethod(42);
Console.WriteLine(42);Would happily print: 42 666
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Oh that's some exciting crap right there.
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This was at the top of the code:
#define 300 1
#define 100 0I'm amazed that the compiler even accepted it! :rolleyes:
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You forgot ;P
#define true 0
#define false 1
#define maybe trueMy programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
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No, that implies the wrong thing. The compiler stored all it's constant values in memory locations, so it could happily pass a reference (or more accurately in those days a machine code pointer) to a constant value and it would act like a variable. Total PITA to debug when you met it for the first time: and a hanging offence to leave in production code...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Geez, I have never actually seen an example of this, but our Fortran and Data Structures instructor mentioned it once on a really old version of Fortran IV.
"Seize the day" - Horace "It's not what he doesn't know that scares me; it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so!" - Will Rogers, said by him about Herbert Hoover
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Geez, I have never actually seen an example of this, but our Fortran and Data Structures instructor mentioned it once on a really old version of Fortran IV.
"Seize the day" - Horace "It's not what he doesn't know that scares me; it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so!" - Will Rogers, said by him about Herbert Hoover
You're just trying to make me feel old, aren't you? Well it won't work, I tell you! I have a wife who has that job covered... :sigh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You forgot ;P
#define true 0
#define false 1
#define maybe trueMy programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
Super Lloyd wrote:
#define true 0
#define false 1
#define maybe true || falseFTFY ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Super Lloyd wrote:
#define true 0
#define false 1
#define maybe true || falseFTFY ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
Much better way of defining maybe, love it! :-D
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