Language change and code breaks

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Jul 12 11:57:34 EDT 2001


    Tom> I *always* forget the 1/3 == 0 thing between programming bursts.
    Tom> OTOH, I also quickly remember after making the mistake the first
    Tom> time.

What is it that reminds you of the mistake?  Is it something glaring like
using the result of 1/3 as a divisor and getting a divide-by-zero error, or
is it something more subtle like getting slightly incorrect results and
having to dig through your code to find the problem?

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