Another gift from the world of #define
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Zip
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Rather simpler this one, but handly none the less: Fed up with writing silly looking lines of code like this?
return 0 - 1;
Well, try this instead:
#define MINUS_ONE 4294967295
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return MINUS_ONE;
Ok, so it's rather pointless, but hey! it's fun! Works for * and the like as well.
Zip
Posted on 2004-07-26 21:20:19
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Thrasher
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Posted on 2004-07-26 22:55:19 (last edited on 2004-07-26 23:04:34)
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Toen
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because that's a lot easier than 0 - 1
Posted on 2004-07-26 23:20:12
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Zip
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ehe.. I wonder what abuse Thrasher decided it was better to edit out...
Not easier, I just don't like the look of (0 - 1), can be rather confusing, whereas MINUS_ONE or something is pretty obvious. It's a clarity thing, not a timesaver/spacesave/optimisation thing.
Zip
Posted on 2004-07-26 23:39:58
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Thrasher
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Oh, you know. Just making fun of verge's inability to return -1; :P
Hmm. I guess that's mean. But it must be said.
Posted on 2004-07-27 00:26:43
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Ness
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*Points to all the inane comments in his HoV pertaining to VERGEs inability to understand a negative number, floats, bools, an array that isn't global, or a struct variable that isn't defined right after the struct*
I'm not complaining....just pointing out the facts
Posted on 2004-07-27 00:30:46
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mcgrue
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Quote: Originally posted by Thrasher
Oh, you know. Just making fun of verge's inability to return -1; :P
Hmm. I guess that's mean. But it must be said.
return 0-1; //?
Posted on 2004-07-27 01:09:16
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Interference22
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VERGE has its limits and yes, some can be extraordinarily annoying, but it goes without saying that its merits are ROCKING COOL.
Posted on 2004-07-27 01:10:05
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RageCage
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why not
#define MINUS_ONE 0-1
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return MINUS_ONE;
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Although your way is fancy =p
Posted on 2004-07-27 01:48:09
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Zip
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#define BAD_ONE 0-1
#define GOOD_ONE 4294967295
void autoexec()
{
if (10 * BAD_ONE == 10 * GOOD_ONE)
MessageBox("You're 'aving a laugh guvna!")
exit("That's why Rage");
}
You could put brackets round of course, but remember #defines are just like a find/replace operation before compile, so you're doing an unnessersary operation each time. Goes for McGrue, too, you CAN use (0-1) everywhere, but it rapidly gets confusing and hard to read... :D
Zip
[Edit: Silly pre-tags - but beat gannon bu a second or two :) ]
Posted on 2004-07-27 02:10:58 (last edited on 2004-07-27 02:11:56)
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gannon
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because 5 - MINUS_ONE would give you 4 and that doesn't make any sence :P
Posted on 2004-07-27 02:10:58
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mcgrue
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At any rate, I know vecna plans on making the unary - operator work at some point in the future before the "gold" release.
For reference, I think we're in the Pewter release right now. Maybe Tin.
Posted on 2004-07-27 02:16:55
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Omni
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Is it that hard to type "0 -" and not know what it means?
Posted on 2004-07-27 16:24:39
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vecna
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There isn't support for any unary operator integer processing right now. That's the primary reason why conditionals (if statements etc) use a separate construct than just resolving an int, because I don't have the stuff in place to support unary !. So, like Grue said, I mean to fix all that - primarily, I wanted to combine the if statements with the integer processing, so that &&, ||, > etc and ! will just be new math operators, and you'd be able to properly use nested IF groups as well. A pleasant side effect would be the unary operator support that would allow unary minus.
Posted on 2004-07-27 17:30:27 (last edited on 2004-07-27 17:31:39)
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Zip
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Wicked. But to be honest, very few of verge's quirks actually harm my productivity. The only thing that really slows me down in the uselessness of debug messages, as I'm rather prone to making silly mistakes and forgetting what I changed. To much time have I spent hunting through code and commenting stuff out for one forgotten }
Zip
Posted on 2004-07-27 18:36:04
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Gayo
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Hee hee. I remember some V2 VCC builds where they just said "an error has occurred" for any compiletime error.
Posted on 2004-07-27 22:23:42
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Omni
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You know, I recall both Winv2 and V2kj/V2.5 VCC both having very accurate line reporting on errors. Why is Verge3 so wacky?
Posted on 2004-07-29 02:02:59
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RageCage
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The newest build of v3 seems to do error reporting quite well in my opinion
Posted on 2004-07-29 19:08:40
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Toen
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Quote:Originally posted by Omni
You know, I recall both Winv2 and V2kj/V2.5 VCC both having very accurate line reporting on errors. Why is Verge3 so wacky? I very seldom get unreasonably wonky line reporting, I dunno
Posted on 2004-07-30 00:38:51
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Omni
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Er...it's been a while since I got the latest WIP engine.
Posted on 2004-07-30 01:41:59
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