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[kingandy]

Yarr.

Just spent half an hour staring at a validation function, before realising I was using the same loop counter variable in two nested loops (several functions removed).

Yarr!

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[archmike.livejournal.com]

Was that even english?

[happy101.livejournal.com]

not it wasn't english..and whats worse.... non of the replies are english


I'm scared.... I think they plan world domination

[(Anonymous)]

I think you might be right

They obviously have a secret code involving really long pasta, bad penis, euphamisms and coffe

[archmike.livejournal.com]

That was me btw :)

[kingandy]

Long pasta and bad penis? I think you'll find...

[happy101.livejournal.com]

I guessed it was....and yes

they are scary

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

nested within each other? did u kill the compiler?

[kingandy]

It wasn't so bad at first since the inner loop only ran with greater than 0, so rather than infinite-looping it was simply ending the loop after a single go (beause i was now greater than the upper limit of the outer loop). It wasn't until I took out that 0 check (tring to figure out why it was only running once) that it went haywire...

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

hee hee, i love infinite loops

[kingandy]

They are good and long, which is after all what's important.

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

but sometimes they just get bigger and bigger, then without warning, they fail and let you down

[kingandy]

I think mine would have just kept on going...

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

so long you had to post twice eh?

[kingandy]

Chance wold be a fine thing.

[blufive.livejournal.com]

And that's another reason why global variables are baaaad, m'kay?

(besides, you're not a real programmer until you've had to reboot to recover from an infinite loop)

[kingandy]

This was javascript, so luckily I only had to kill the browser (through task manager, since it was popping up "confirm" windows as part of the debug process).

Honestly, I've never thought a variable defined in the "for" statement would have anything but local scope...

[blufive.livejournal.com]

[disclaimer: I am not a JS guru, but...]

IIRC, in javascript, there's no such thing as local scope - pretty much everything's global.

Otherwise - infinite loop with alert() calls in it - nice.