Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C bites Dog! Message-ID: <131@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 14:09:30 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.131 Posted: Fri Aug 30 14:09:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 05:59:07 EDT References: <872@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1835@reed.UUCP> Organization: Information Brokerage Network, Houston, TX Lines: 11 > > > > > if (sv > score); <----- note extraneous semi-colon > > > > > score = sv; > > > ICK ICK ICK! I hate languages that do that. Ever considered using "cb" as a > > > debugging tool? I have an MS-DOS version if anyone wants it... > > [...] What > > would you do, compare the output of `cb' with the original? Takes > > lots of time & can be visually overlooked. Yes. Since I write cb-like code in the first place it's very easy to just diff it... any lines diff catches are either long function calls or errors of this type.