On 4/27/2013 5:03 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
If you switch the order of operands in that, the compiler won't help
you. Plus it "reads" wrong. So the convention is still
variable==constant.
I just found a nice example of putting the constant first. I've just
do
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> If you switch the order of operands in that, the compiler won't help
> you. Plus it "reads" wrong. So the convention is still
> variable==constant.
I just found a nice example of putting the constant first. I've just
done a whole bunch of ugly math to find
On 25/04/2013 21:35, Steve Simmons wrote:
The Ying Tong song - a classic of its time. But eminently suited to the
chorally challenged.
Released on a classic EP with Major Dennis Bloodnok's Rock and Roll Call
Rumba, I'm walking Backwards for Christmas and Bluebottle Blues.
Bravado, bravado
On 04/25/2013 10:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Also, this protection helps only when the "constant"
is actually something the compiler knows is a constant - it doesn't
work in a search function, for instance:
char *strchr(char *string, char findme) {
while (*string) {
if (*st
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:57:49 +1000, Chris Angelico
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>> It's conventional to compare variables to constants, not constants to
>> variables (even in C where there's the possibility of
llanitedave wrote:
>On Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:31:04 AM UTC-7, Steve Simmons wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> With the sort of thinking you're demonstrating here, you
>>
>> should consider a job working with Spike Milligna (the well known
>typing error).
>>
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>>
>> Errr ,
On 2013-04-25, llanitedave wrote:
>> Errr , I think you'll find that he's joined the choir
>> invisibule. Mind you, he did say he was ill!
>>
>> Sent from a Galaxy far far away
>
> Did you ever hear him sing? He's better off in the choir
> inaudible.
Well I've never heard either one.
--
Ne
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:31:04 AM UTC-7, Steve Simmons wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>
>
> With the sort of thinking you're demonstrating here, you
>
> should consider a job working with Spike Milligna (the well known typing
> error).
>
>
>
> Errr , I think you'll find that he's
Chris Angelico wrote:
With the sort of thinking you're demonstrating here, you
should consider a job working with Spike Milligna (the well known typing error).
Errr , I think you'll find that he's joined the choir invisibule. Mind you,
he did say he was ill!
Sent from a Galaxy far far away
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:19 AM, llanitedave wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:57:49 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I thought programming WAS a hobby?
>>
>
> I meant a safer, easier, and more mainstream hobby, like base jumping or
> motorcycle aerobatics or something.
Good point. Wit
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:57:49 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:49 PM, llanitedave wrote:
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> > Given that
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> >
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> > s = some static value
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> > i = a value incremented during a loop
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> >
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> > I'm used to comparing them as
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> >
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> > if i == s:
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> >
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:49 PM, llanitedave wrote:
> Given that
>
> s = some static value
> i = a value incremented during a loop
>
> I'm used to comparing them as
>
> if i == s:
> # some code
>
> But for some unknown reason I did a switch
>
> if s == i:
> # same code
>
> It didn't seem t
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