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Re: Re: Some of us just want to know the basics

by lemming (Priest)
on Jan 25, 2001 at 06:01 UTC ( [id://54177]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Some of use just want to know the basics
in thread Some of use just want to know the basics

For a real world example of cut-n-paste wrong doing: This idiot had made multiple modules with this error in it: The code was Info-Basic, but I'll present it "Perl" style

for ($x=1; $x < 999; $x++) {
 ProcessAccountNumber($x);
}

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He did this for every single number based item. ("Gee, we'll never see numbers that big.") Yes 999, for transactions he used 999999.

Ow. remembering that hurt.

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