RE: RE: RE: RE: Good programming language..
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Originally posted by TheSteve
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Originally posted by Verte
[recently a friend couldn't work out how to convert a string to an integer- turns out you can subtract zero to do this. Just too strange].
That would be subtracting the character '0'. That's possible in C/C++ as well.
It may be possible, but there are also conversion functions, or where one is not required, a direct cast. was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13 | 
