On 9/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olle Mulmo) wrote:
>Peter's example is "standard to the language". It's just not used much
>by those influenced by other idioms prior to learning Java.
>
>I guess another way of saying this is: the people on this list are
>getting old. :-)
I guess insisting on cor
On Sep 21, 2005, at 23:27, Steve Furlong wrote:
If by that you mean, "Program dumb: avoid tricky code, avoid odd
usage, stick to the basics", I agree. Save your clever tricks for
hobby code and the snippets you use to score hot chicks. Critical
code, potentially dangerous code, and professional
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Furlong writes:
>
>On a related note, I've worked a bit with avionics and embedded
>medical software. The certification requirements for those bits of
>critical code might be helpful for crypto programming.
>
Not quite. The name of the game is information se
On 9/20/05, Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is wandering way far afield of the list charter. In an effort
> to maintain some relevance, I'll point out that code reviews, and
> crypto programming, are rarely done, and arguably shouldn't, by
> programming wizards.
If by that you mean, "
| > One thing to consider is that an idiom like this solves an annoying
problem.
| > Consider a linear search through an array:
| >
| > for (i = 0; i < lim; i++)
| > { if (a[i] == target)
| > {
| > break;
| > }
| > }
| > /
The very name of the term -- exception -- argues against using it as a
standard flow-of-control construct. Python's for/else is better; it'd
be nice to see that show up in Java/C# some day.
This is wandering way far afield of the list charter. In an effort
to maintain some relevance, I'll point
On 2005-09-20, Jerrold Leichter wrote:
> One thing to consider is that an idiom like this solves an annoying problem.
> Consider a linear search through an array:
>
> for (i = 0; i < lim; i++)
> { if (a[i] == target)
> {
> break;
>
| It used to be that checking bounds on certain collections was less
| efficient than waiting for the out of bounds exception. I think Joshua
| Bloch discusses this in his book.
|
| I've also seen this in generated code where you aren't sure of the
| nature of the object you're indexing and thus d
On 9/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) wrote:
>Found on the Daily WTF, http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/43223/ShowPost.aspx:
>
> try {
>int idx = 0;
>
>while (true) {
> displayProductInfo(prodnums[idx]);
> idx++;
> }
>}
> catch (IndexOutOfBoundExcepti
It used to be that checking bounds on certain collections was less
efficient than waiting for the out of bounds exception. I think Joshua
Bloch discusses this in his book.
I've also seen this in generated code where you aren't sure of the
nature of the object you're indexing and thus don't know th
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Gutmann writes
:
>Found on the Daily WTF, http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/43223/ShowPost.aspx:
>
> try {
>int idx = 0;
>
>while (true) {
> displayProductInfo(prodnums[idx]);
> idx++;
> }
>}
> catch (IndexOutOfBoundExcept
Found on the Daily WTF, http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/43223/ShowPost.aspx:
try {
int idx = 0;
while (true) {
displayProductInfo(prodnums[idx]);
idx++;
}
}
catch (IndexOutOfBoundException ex) {
// nil
}
The editor also comments that when he
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