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Re: error message I don understand [message #174890 is a reply to message #174889] Sat, 16 July 2011 12:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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liebling(dot)kreuzberg(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>> liebling.kreuzberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Odd, since I said exactly the same thing, with added humour.
>>>> Hmmm, strange form of humour. Not my cup of ........
>>>> Maybe due to the fact that Englis (nor American) is not my mothertongue.
>>> Natural posted 2 hours *after* Billy and, of course, we're supposed to
>>> assume that he didn't see Billy's reply to spur him onto the same
>>> solution but differently composed.
>>>
>>> In some programming languages, the "=" is not an assignment operator
>>> when its context is within the conditional clause. In others, it is an
>>> assignment operator (followed by a Boolean test for true or false) and
>>> is sometimes used as a cheat but usually for the right-side operand. If
>>> you had reversed the left- and right-side operands you wouldn't get an
>>> error in all languages and instead might get an assignment that you
>>> didn't expect along with an action by the 'if' that was unplanned.
>>>
>>> Sometimes another pair of eyes will see your mistake. Too often your
>>> eyes see what your mind expects to see. Bouncing between multiple
>>> programming languages doesn't help, either. Don't let Natural fool you:
>>> this is a mistake common to ALL programmers and shows up often enough
>>> that all of them recognize the mistake because it wasn't so long ago
>>> since they made that same mistake.
>> Ah but when I first made it it was because I didn't know better
>>
>> Today its just a typo.;-)
>
> Never mind, I learned something I didn't know and that is a win.
>
> BR, Schimanski
>


Well you got your answer, I had some fun, reminiscing about the first
uncertain steps we all take in programming, and no harm was done, so a
win win hopefully.

I remember many years ago I went back to sort out some issues in some C
code..someone else had taken ober

" I see you don't like using the 'switch..case' statement, its all
nested 'if then else' here'

"No, I like it. Then I wasn't sure of the syntax, and I was under heavy
pressure to get this working, so I used what I was familiar with".

(I didn't want to tell her it was in fact the first commercial C code I
had ever written).

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