Programming style and evolution

[Adron]

I'm not trying to discourage you from learning C, but I just have to say your style is awful.  If you're going to declare a list of variables of the same type either put them into an array or declare them in one statement using the comma (,) operator.  

It is considered good style to declare no more than one variable per line, and to put a comment on that line describing what the variable will be used for.

[iago]

I'm not trying to discourage you from learning C, but I just have to say your style is awful.  If you're going to declare a list of variables of the same type either put them into an array or declare them in one statement using the comma (,) operator.  

It is considered good style to declare no more than one variable per line, and to put a comment on that line describing what the variable will be used for.

hmm, is the comma actually an operator here?  I know it's an operator when you do "a = 2, 3", but I don't think "int a, b" is considered the "comma operator".

[Eibro]

I'm not trying to discourage you from learning C, but I just have to say your style is awful.  If you're going to declare a list of variables of the same type either put them into an array or declare them in one statement using the comma (,) operator.  

It is considered good style to declare no more than one variable per line, and to put a comment on that line describing what the variable will be used for.

hmm, is the comma actually an operator here?  I know it's an operator when you do "a = 2, 3", but I don't think "int a, b" is considered the "comma operator".

No, you're right, it's not an operator when used in this context.

[Adron]

Btw, I don't like my old code at all. It's ugly.

[iago]

Btw, I don't like my old code at all. It's ugly.

Same.  I'm embarassed with code I wrote a year ago

[Mitosis]

Btw, I don't like my old code at all. It's ugly.

Same.  I'm embarassed with code I wrote a year ago

Im ashamed of my code because of people like Joker :\

[iago]

Btw, I don't like my old code at all. It's ugly.

Same.  I'm embarassed with code I wrote a year ago

Im ashamed of my code because of people like Joker :\

I'm not sure what j0k3r said about your code, besides trying to give you advice about his mistakes.

The bottom line that I tell everybody I know who's learning programming:

We (that is, everybody in the world but Skywing, I think) aren't born with keyboards.  It takes time and patience.

[Etheran]

a,b,c = 5,9,7

that's my idea of programming style

[Yoni]

a,b,c = 5,9,7

that's my idea of programming style

python whore

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

You are jealous of our eleet syntax constructs that let us write code in 1/10 the time it takes you.

Before you whine about performance, http://psyco.sf.net

[Yoni]

Yeah, I am. I started to learn Python (hence the fact I recognized that's what Etheran wrote his line of code in) but stopped due to lack of time (I'll check again in July or so).

[iago]

hmm

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int a, b, c;

a = b = c = 3, 2, 1;

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's valid c, isn't it?  Valid, yet horrible..

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My bad, this is what I was thinking of:

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int a, b, c;
a = (b = (c = 3, 2), 1);

stupid brackets

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Yoni, you need any help, I'm pretty durned good

[Yoni]

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int a, b, c;
a = (b = (c = 3, 2), 1);

That's pretty nice, never thought of that.

It's pretty confusing and useless, just like good hackerish code in C should be.