Funny mistake
Wolfram Roesler
wolfram at cip-s05.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Wed Feb 27 02:18:50 AEST 1991
Hello out there,
I had a funny mistake the other day you might be interested in. It was an
obvious syntax error which resulted in legal C code. Funny too how many times
I read over it without seeing whats wrong.
What I wanted to write was:
if (fct(a,b,c))
but by mistake I wrote:
if (fct(a,b),c)
Easy to see here, but hard to discover when it's not a b c but some speaking
variable names like NoOfLines or ErrorFlag or FilePtr or something.
Perhaps that's why many people refuse to use speaking variable names... :)
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