Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote:
Your phrase almost made me care about...
Do you wanna make me care ? Show some points, make a constructive
critic about what i said etc.
For all that matter, your answer is just a plain old argumentum ad
hominem, a fallacy category, and being a fallacy, tells me you cant
really make a good answer, so i infer you are the idiot here.
Please- that really wasn't called for. It's quite obvious from context
that Henry was simply agreeing with your
Pascal generally improves programmer productivity. Lets not break this
by adding crazy ideas from C/C++ family of languages...
"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it
and remove all doubt"
But if you want an example of a very nasty bug caused by C/C++ multiple
assignment, there was a well-documented attempt to slip a privilege
escalation into the Linux kernel based on this a few years ago.
It's very easy to argue against multiple assignment. It's less easy to
argue against implementing an equivalent of the C/C++ conditional.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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