Player "0" - Does it make sense?

[aubergine]

Ah, Kanji (IIRC) - now we can have ~400,000 players referenced with a single character! yay!

[Jorzi]

About stating from 0 in programming:
http://xkcd.com/163/

[aubergine]

<3 xkcd

[Iluvalar]

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for i := 0; i++ < count; {
 [do Something]
}

A fine example of Stuff You Should Never Do.

Sometime, i felt it was necessary to distinguish, "NULL" from "UNKNOWN" to respect the third codd rule. You have another solution ?

[stiv]

Sometime, i felt it was necessary to distinguish, "NULL" from "UNKNOWN" to respect the third codd rule.

This has nothing to do with null values and everything thing to do with loops and indexing. Try and focus.

You have another solution ?

Yeah, do not do weird stuff like this lest you find yourself hunted for sport by your co-workers in general, and maintenance programmers in particular. If you want the loop to start at one, start it at one and don't be cute. And no side effects, please.

[aubergine]

I tend to iterate through lists backwards just because I like the way the code looks:

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var x= someArray.length;
while (-1<--x) { // "x" marks the spot (:
  // do stuff with someArray[x]
}

I should probably invest in some body armour?

[lav_coyote25]

well, from what i have seen here over the last few days, should this topic not be in the lounge? lets face it, its one of those topics where no one can agree, except to disagree. right?

[stiv]

where no one can agree, except to disagree. right?

Cantankerous bunch we are, we pro'lly don't even agree on that!

Personally, I love software archeology. Always interesting to understand "How did this curious situation come about?"

[aubergine]

some awesome for loop stuff in javascript: http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2 ... for-loops/

[milo christiansen]

In which the use of for-loops will evolve from the familiar to the slightly nutty. The intent is to demonstrate the flexibility of the construct and the power of the language – not to provide best practice templates

"slightly nutty"? Some of the examples are downright insane!

Cool, but insane

[Cyp]

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	int _ = +-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~+ 0;
	while (+~-_---~+ 0)
		printf("%d\n", _);

[aubergine]

@Cyp how on earth does that resolve to 9876543210 ?

EDIT: Here's the Javascript equivalent of that code if anyone wants to test it in a browser:

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var _ = Number(+-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~+ 0);
   while (+~-_---~+ 0)
      document.write(_);

[milo christiansen]

try

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javascript:var _ = Number(+-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~+ 0); while (+~-_---~+ 0)document.write(" " + _)

[Saberuneko]

It makes perfect sense to a programmer

It does

[Emdek]

Not always, AFAIK COBOL starts from 1.