Tales from the front line S01E04

[nea]

Uhhh... you could at least indent the further ternaries...

Now THAT would look nasty. You'd have a massive tail going across your screen, stretching your document out

And THATs a reason I don't like them ^^' You have to understand recursion to understand recursion! The same reason I prefer relaxng cs instead of XSD as I simply cannot get why to define xml by xml so that I have to created immense tails for just small grammar decisions.

Ah, programmers preferences are always good topics to talk about ^^'

[brog]

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switch (currentWeaponType)
{
    case (item0.type):
        currentWeaponType = item1.researchLevel > 0 ? item1.type :
                            item2.researchLevel > 0 ? item2.type :
                            item3.researchLevel > 0 ? item3.type :
                            item4.researchLevel > 0 ? item4.type :
                            item0.type;
        break;

    ...

}

This is not ugly, certainly not diabolic. If you wanted to make it a bit confusing you could spice it up by having nesting on both sides of the colons. You know, a ? b ? c : d : e ? f : g sort of thing.

However.. I don't really like the assumption that there are only four item types. Why not have a general data structure of possible item types which you just iterate across to find the first researched one?

[Phelanpt]

Heh, awesome posts, Byron!

I rarely use the ternary operator, and it's mostly for yes/no (singular/plural, etc.) output.

[prophile]

Shouldn't this be looked up from some kind of table? Don't hard code stuff, man. Bad Byron! Bad elDiablo!

[Byron]

Shouldn't this be looked up from some kind of table? Don't hard code stuff, man. Bad Byron! Bad elDiablo!

oh thanks - what did I do?

Right, that's it - sulking now.

*sulk*

Okay, sulking over.

Ah, the old data driven versus hard-coded argument eh? I am in favour of both.

[ynbniar]

Crumbs...somebody get the coders back in their cubicles before some trout get smashed

[Pox]

Ah, is that was does the smashing, Byron putting trout in the server?

[NeoThermic]

Shouldn't this be looked up from some kind of table? Don't hard code stuff, man. Bad Byron! Bad elDiablo!

If things were not hardcoded, most of IVs games would break!

Also, we need more mind-popping-ness. I suggest we obfuscate the given example to be far more complicated than it looks

NeoThermic

[Mas Tnega]

Time to bring out the brainfuck interpreters?

[Byron]

Time to bring out the brainfuck interpreters?

I have been tempted. John's very much into alternative languages so it would appeal to him. Perhaps you could persuade chris to make that the official scripting language of Subversion?

[Montyphy]

Forget Brainfuck, use Piet programs for in-game content or little Easter eggs!

[NeoThermic]

Malbolge is my fave esoteric programming language. I mean, the first program was computer generated in 2 years using a beam search. That's one heck of a difficult language.

NeoThermic

[Montyphy]

Anyone played Core Wars? I've read into much of the history and detailed breakdowns of some of the generic warriors. Pretty fascinating stuff. Been wanting to give it a whirl myself.

[martin]

I played core wars for a while ages ago, it was the first programming code I used - makes for a nice and easy introduction into the world of programming

Introversion Core Wars hill anyone?

[Mas Tnega]

Sure, why not? Why not complicate it and say the king has to play a year on a Dwarf Fortress succession. Set a goal for the Fortress, and then at least running the Fortress will get rather... strategic.

*switches brain off*