You are right. Not a trick question - my mistake.

Joep

Op dinsdag 6 september 2011 schreef Piers Goodhew ([email protected]) het
volgende:
>
>
> On Tuesday, 6 September 2011 00:51:54 UTC+10, Joep wrote:
>>
>> > rather than:
>> >     y = y & 63 -- or equivalent constant
>>
>> Check with y=180 (not sure if it is an intended difference though).
>
> Is that a trick question? I don't think they are different.
> I got all unit-testy, the following Ruby script (which runs all the Jal
if/thens unmodified*) says they produce the same value for all 8-bit
numbers:
>
> #! /usr/bin/ruby
>
> SCREEN_MAX_Y = 63
>
> SCREEN_ROWS = 64
>
> def three_ifs_way(y)
>
>     if y > 191 then
>
>          y = y - 192
>
>     elsif y > 127 then
>
>          y = y - 128
>
>     elsif y > SCREEN_MAX_Y then
>
>          y = y - SCREEN_ROWS
>
>     end
>
>     return y
>
> end
>
> def one_AND_way(y)
>
>     return y & 63
>
> end
>
> #### main loop
>
> return_value = 0
>
> for i in 0..255
>
>     if three_ifs_way(i) != one_AND_way(i) then
>
>         puts "Bad! Methods differ for value #{i}"
>
>         return_value += 1
>
>     end
>
> end
>
> exit return_value
>
>
> * had to change "end if" to just "end"
>
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