Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||'
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I don't understand all the hate for the alternative tokens, personally I would prefer them over the cryptic characters :D
especially as I work with a Mac and a Windows VM and the character keys are differently mapped for pipe and backslash and tilde etc.
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I don't understand all the hate for the alternative tokens, personally I would prefer them over the cryptic characters :D
especially as I work with a Mac and a Windows VM and the character keys are differently mapped for pipe and backslash and tilde etc.
@J-Hilk said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
I don't understand all the hate for the alternative tokens, personally I would prefer them over the cryptic characters :D
Are you serious? You prefer to write code using "features" that 99+% of all existing code/users out there do not use? E.g. witness this question the OP has raised, indicating that he had no idea
orwould work. Or, default MSVC does not support. Maybe it's OK if it's only you who codes --- and you never copy/paste it into a question at stackoverflow!C used nicely obscure symbols to keep the hoi polloi out of programming so that people like me could make a living --- and long may that last! ;-)
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@J-Hilk said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
I don't understand all the hate for the alternative tokens, personally I would prefer them over the cryptic characters :D
Are you serious? You prefer to write code using "features" that 99+% of all existing code/users out there do not use? E.g. witness this question the OP has raised, indicating that he had no idea
orwould work. Or, default MSVC does not support. Maybe it's OK if it's only you who codes --- and you never copy/paste it into a question at stackoverflow!C used nicely obscure symbols to keep the hoi polloi out of programming so that people like me could make a living --- and long may that last! ;-)
@JonB it is not a pure C feature, it is officially part of C++ :P
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative
and matter of fact, when I read code, I actually read
orandandetc and not,pipe pipeand and:Pmy personal favourite:
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@JonB it is not a pure C feature, it is officially part of C++ :P
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative
and matter of fact, when I read code, I actually read
orandandetc and not,pipe pipeand and:Pmy personal favourite:
??-@J-Hilk said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
it is not a pure C feature, it is officially part of C++
Sadly...
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@JonB it is not a pure C feature, it is officially part of C++ :P
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative
and matter of fact, when I read code, I actually read
orandandetc and not,pipe pipeand and:Pmy personal favourite:
??-@J-Hilk said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
@JonB it is not a pure C feature, it is officially part of C++ :P
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternativeI know this since I referenced
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C%2B%2B for C++
! It's just they were originally introduced in C.
@Christian-Ehrlicher said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
Sadly...
Exactly!
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I don't understand all the hate for the alternative tokens
Maybe for few people it is but I wouldn't call it hate in general. Every programming language goes through stages and one of them is hashing out which features become the "canon" of it and which are to be left on the wayside and forgotten. For alternative logic operators this ship has sailed couple of decades ago and there's absolutely no value in trying to turn it around. Someone liking this or that syntax more is irrelevant at this point. Very few people know about this feature, even fewer use it and it's almost never being taught. Even if you like it the best thing to do is let it die its natural death of obscurity, so that it can be removed at some point, like trigraphs were in C++17 after a looooong time. A simpler language with fewer syntactical options to do the same thing in different ways is far more valuable. I would gladly send this feature to a chopping block just because it's redundant at this point, not because I dislike the syntax.
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What about array indexes? You can do "fun" things with those too:
int array[5] = {0,1,2,3,4}; 2[array] = 17; array[3] = 200; qDebug() << array; for(int ind=0; ind<5; ++ind){ qDebug() << ind[array]; }Its just pointer math, but it is fun.
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@fcarney said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
2[array] = 17;
Bad engineer! No cookie!
I light my way forward with the fires of all the bridges I've burned behind me.
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@fcarney said in Use of the word 'or' instead of double pipe '||':
2[array] = 17;
Bad engineer! No cookie!
@Kent-Dorfman you owe me a clean cloth to clean my display <3
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What about array indexes? You can do "fun" things with those too:
int array[5] = {0,1,2,3,4}; 2[array] = 17; array[3] = 200; qDebug() << array; for(int ind=0; ind<5; ++ind){ qDebug() << ind[array]; }Its just pointer math, but it is fun.
@fcarney C++ has grown to be a very versatile language. It can be used to solve "real world" engineering problem, teach someone to code, enter one of these for fun code contests and much more. That type of code is good for one of these tasks at least :)
