Did you know python for loops have an else clause?
Did you also know it runs after the loop iterator is done, and not when there was never anything to iterate over at all?
Your point about it not running when there is nothing to iterate over is incorrect. The else-statement runs when the iterator is exhausted; if the iterator empty, it is exhausted immediately and the else-statement is executed.
I think it’s intended as “not only when” because it would make sense to have an “if empty” case but the way it is, it doesn’t make sense
That actually seemed quite useful at first.
10 print “All Work, No Play”
20 goto 10
30 end
#define if while // 🤪
Through the magic of make, you can write code that changes if statements to while loops then changes it back after compilation passes or fails.
I only give good advice.
int main() { useless: int x = 10; if (1) { goto useless; } }This is the real way!
Yea, I saw C style and was disappointed when it didn’t abuse gotos.
ELI5 plz
Statements that start with # in C/C++ are known as preprocessor directives, that is, they are executed before compilation begins. OP has used a
which will replace any instance of A (IF(x)) with B (while (x)) in the code.So the
IFstatement is really just awhilestatement.But what is it in reference to? What’s the “infamous if loop”?
Ah, I believe that would be
from a college course.I always wondered why I always had a hard time making developers not call “if” a “loop”.
Turns out it was on their tests.Glad I didn’t read my college material, or I would have lost faith in my college professors.
It just occurred to that in Yorkshire dialect a while loop would actually be an until loop. Directives to the rescue!
“Infamous” just refers to newbies who sometimes call if statements “if loops”. I’ve heard this quite a bit.
Infamous because the condition is 1 (or true), the loop never actually exits because it’s always true
They used a macro to make ‘IF’ (which is distinctly not ‘if’) map to ‘while’. So it’s really a while(1) loop, which will repeat forever, or until the program is terminated, whichever comes first.
Someone’s just being silly.
Thx!
‘IF’ (which is distinctly not ‘if’)
Is this something needed “for the meme” or something with this macro or C/C++? Or why the case-sensitivity here? I only know languages like Java, Python, JS. Unfortunately the ancient tongue is not known to me.
It’s not really that important to the joke, since I’m pretty sure you can also replace keywords like ‘if’ with the preprocessor. It’s just that preprocessor macros are typically (style, not syntax) ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES.
It’s just another clue that that block isn’t actually an if-block, since C is case sensitive and ‘IF’ wouldn’t actually work.
i have a colleague always saying if loop (in our language). I’m a bit to shy to tell him his mistakes… People easily hate me but i would like to…
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