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trønderen wrote: That is OK with me, as long as you accept that today is 2/6, 2024.
Heh. As an American, that actually took some getting used to when I'd date my articles here. We do things differently here. Dumber. See our football. Our "cheese". etc.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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I like this approach: Let's decide, whether the whole world is little or big endian.
Then we can apply this decision in the computer world.
By the way, what programming language was used to write the whole world? I think this was C.
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As the Universe is still expanding, going from small to big, I think the answer is obvious. At least on the scale of the Universe.
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Honey the codewitch wrote: humans couldn't universally agree on endian order.
Now we know why: the endianness of the whole universe is gradually changed from little to big.
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One little, two little, three little Indians,
Six little, five little, four little endians...
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Here's a little test for you.
Does this code compile?
public interface IStorage{
int Save();
}
public interface IPersist{
int Save();
}
public class SaveImplementor : IStorage, IPersist{
public int Save(){
return 1;
}
}
I'm implementing two interfaces which contain the same virtual method signature.
Well, it seems a little odd to me.
Obviously, if you want the separate implementations you have to write them explicitly.
Like this:
public class SaveImplementor : IStorage, IPersist{
int IStorage.Save(){
return 1;
}
int IPersist.Save(){
return 2;
}
}
IMPORTANT NOTE: Notice that in the first example you HAVE to include the public modifier on the method implementation.
HOWEVER, on the second example where you explicitly implement the Interface method you CANNOT include the public modifier.
I'm filing this one under weird.
But, I guess I accept it. I have to, or else the C# compiler doesn't accept me. 
Answer - The first example does indeed compile.
EDIT
Oh, and after I posted that, I went back and new'd up a SaveImplementor() and then I couldn't figure out how to call either of those explicit methods.
Hmm... It's got me thinking now.
EDIT 2
Here's the simple example that explains the explicit implementation: Explicit Interface Implementation - C# Programming Guide - C# | Microsoft Learn[^] .
modified 25-Apr-24 16:36pm.
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raddevus wrote: Oh, and after I posted that, I went back and new'd up a SaveImplementor() and then I couldn't figure out how to call either of those explicit methods.
Hmm... It's got me thinking now.
((IPersist)saveImplementor).Save()
((IStorage)saveImplementor).Save()
If I'm remembering correctly, saveImplementor.Save() raw won't work in the second EII example, you'd have to ALSO have a public int Save() {}. I believe this is because EII implementations are ad-hoc polymorphic, the implementation differs depending on the type-view/cast of the object - as opposed to the standard implicit ones which are parametric polymorphic, so its the same implementation for every type-view/cast of the object.
Honestly it's been a long time since I've seen EII used because of this weird behavior. It makes it so you can have an object that seems to completely change it's class/behavior with a simple cast, AND all that new behavior is completely hidden from all other casts of the SAME object.
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For added fun, try throwing some default interface members[^] into the mix. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I've always understood C# to automatically "fill in" any empty method slots with methods of the same name. Contrast this with VB.NET where you must (AFAIK) always explicitly tell it which interface it implements.
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... after a frustrating week, this could be taken as a general rant at the quality of open-source software with applications to particular pieces.
Given enough eyeballs, where are those eyeballs looking? Surely not at libpng[^] - the reference implementation for the PNG format. It is a smallish library of about 20 kLOC but the configuration file with all the possible options has over 200 different options. That makes for 200x200 = 40k potentially different ways you could build the library. Either that or some of the options are redundant.
The code quality is atrocious. I understand that it's a project started in the '90es but that's no excuse for not cleaning it up from time to time. You cannot let one test program get to 12000 lines in a single file. And those 12000 lines are full of miracles like parameters and structure members called this! Don't you worry! At the beginning of the file there is this fragment:
#ifdef __cplusplus
# define this not_the_cpp_this
# define new not_the_cpp_new 
Also, if the byzantine compile time configuration options make it impossible for the program to run would you think of throwing an error using a #error directive? NO, good quality open-source code just wraps the whole program in an #if block with the #else clause, 12000 lines below:
#else /* write or low level APIs not supported */
int main(void)
{
fprintf(stderr,
"pngvalid: no low level write support in libpng, all tests skipped\n");
return SKIP;
}
#endifRemember: these are compile time conditions; why would you fail at run time?
Have you heard of semantic versioning? Well, check this out (straight from the LIBPNG) web site:
Quote: At present, there are eight branches:
master (actively developed)
libpng16 (equivalent to master)
libpng17 (frozen, last updated on 2017-Sep-03)
libpng15 (frozen, last updated on 2017-Sep-28)
libpng14 (frozen, last updated on 2017-Sep-28)
libpng12 (frozen, last updated on 2017-Sep-28)
libpng10 (frozen, last updated on 2017-Aug-24)
libpng00 (frozen, last updated on 1998-Mar-08)
These translate in version numbers as 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.5.x, and so on. So, let me get this straight: version 1.7 is frozen and version 1.6 is actively developed? Have you guys ran out of numbers? And, guess what, in code you find many tests like these:
#if PNG_LIBPNG_VER >= 10700
if (!for_background && image->bit_depth < 8)
image->bit_depth = image->sample_depth = 8;
#endif???
I will stop here although, after a week of frustrations, I could go on and on.
There is a well-known commencement speech: Make your own bed - University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address - Admiral William H. McRaven - YouTube[^]. As a developer, and specially as an open-source maintainer, before writing a single line of new code, do everyone a favour: clean the project you are working on; make your own bed!
Mircea
modified 21-Apr-24 13:44pm.
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Thanks for the amusing rant!
You're saying the implementation of the PNG format is only 20 KLOCs and is a hacked together PoS written in C? I'm stunned no one has rewritten it. That was something that regularly gave me joy! But let me guess. Obscure corners of the spec for which no test images exist? People who'd scream about a breaking change that forced them to revisit magic settings for 200 options? Or just, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"--which makes sense if it's not seeing new development, but it sounds like it is. And that many developers contributing to it over a long period of time were fearful of breaking it, so most (or all, because of a "policy") enabled their new code with a new option?
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C:\development\png\src>cloc *.c
15 text files.
15 unique files.
0 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.00 T=0.11 s (134.0 files/s, 275793.4 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C 15 4626 5400 20838
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 15 4626 5400 20838
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greg Utas wrote: is a hacked together PoS written in C?
I wouldn't go to call it a PoS, but certainly in dire need of a cleanup.
Mircea
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There's actually a reasonable number of comments and blanks!
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"cloc *.c"
Dear Jesus, I miss the command line. I really need to go back to Unix development. Or go on a car camping road trip alone...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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In my last job, we needed to know the number of code / blank / comment / hash / blockdelimiter-only lines in various languages (with different comment markers and block delimiters), as well as code lines with embedded or end-of-line comments.
Coding it wasn't much above the 'trivial' level. Setting up a standard directory search dialog, a set of check boxes for file selection on type and optionally name, traversing/filtering the selected directories are straightforward, standard tasks.
Actually, my biggest problem was handling those files that were themselves processing source code: They frequently contained string values that were comment start/end, confusing the search for "real" comment markers. And nested comments were nasty. I didn't have the resources for writing full parsers for all the languages in question, so I did a few dirty shortcuts; I am not sure if nested comments always were counted 100% correctly, but the assignment called only for an 'estimate', reporting in KLOCs, not exact values, so it was 'good enough'.
The functionality went significantly beyond cloc. The tree traversal and file analysis (i.e. line counting) was somewhere around 400 lines of C# code.
So, if you really miss it badly: Sit down and code it, with a GUI interface.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I agree. Of course, this can be done. I just miss the cleanliness of Unix as compared to the 5 headed hydra monstrosity that Windows has become. VS2022 is so bloated, we should bring back whaling and turn it into oil.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Quote: # define this not_the_cpp_this
I'm refactoring my code now to follow this pattern.
May future maintainers writhe in pain.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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...or the similar ones that don't have a scroll thumb (just arrows), but being "nice to people", open at the default of USA.
Australian sites, for ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) sake. click, click, click, click....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Also think about the poor Canadians
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I want to see the data storage for this ui... Do you have to join two tables to get the full phone number. This will be a piece of code they look back on and hopefully say, what was I thinking!
Table: Address
int CountryCodeID
string PhoneNumber
Table: CountryCode
int CountryCodeID
string CountryCode
Hogan
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Requiring the country code seems unusual (for a site in the U.S.)
What do you mean - is there anything outside the USA? Do they have telephones as well? Really?? 
-- but what would prompt a web developer to make it an elephanting drop-down?! I guess that even a lot of Europeans do not know the phone country code of their homeland. I guess that a lot of USA citizens, if they had to call home when on a dangerous vacation trip to The Primitive World outside USA, would go straight ahead with their US number, unaware that they have to prefix it with +1. On a landline phone, that might be 001, or 0951 (that's in Norway, up until 20-30 years ago), or something else. Even when told about the '+1', many would not know the meaning of the 1, but view the whole prefix as a deficiency of the country's phone system.
So, I think this drop down list, displaying both the code, so that users learn it, and the name of the country, for those who are not sure about the code, is a really good idea. It is not possible to see from the screenshot if you are allowed to type the code directly without using the pulldown list. Users who know their country code with 110% certainty would most likely prefer that - but maybe their memory has a bit error, or they make a typing mistake, so they specify an unused code or the code of a completely different country. The pulldown list is one way for the software to ensure that a valid number is entered. And, the selected value can display the country: Users from other countries might leave a '+1' untouched without noticing. They are much more likely to notice '+1 (US)': But I am not in the US!
The UI isn't really that bad, in my eyes. I think what I saw yesterday was far worse: I sent a notice through the web pages of the Norwegian Automobile Owners Association. The form had entries for name, email, and membership number: The membership number field was a spin control starting at -1. I did not let it spin up to my number (a value for the field was not mandatory)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The other day I wrote an SQL function with a bug of the following form:
DECLARE @i INTEGER = 0
WHILE ( @i < foo )
BEGIN
IF
BEGIN
SET @i = @i + 1
END
END
I expected the function to be inefficient, but not infinite the first time the test returns false. 
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if your condition is never met (or not met "foo" times), your loop control will never increment (or not increment enough to break on the condition), thus the loop will be infinite.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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