ELI5 plz
They used a macro to make ‘IF’ (which is distinctly not ‘if’) map to ‘while’. So it’s really a while(1) loop, which will repeat forever, or until the program is terminated, whichever comes first.
Someone’s just being silly.
Thx!
‘IF’ (which is distinctly not ‘if’)
Is this something needed “for the meme” or something with this macro or C/C++? Or why the case-sensitivity here? I only know languages like Java, Python, JS. Unfortunately the ancient tongue is not known to me.
It’s not really that important to the joke, since I’m pretty sure you can also replace keywords like ‘if’ with the preprocessor. It’s just that preprocessor macros are typically (style, not syntax) ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES.
It’s just another clue that that block isn’t actually an if-block, since C is case sensitive and ‘IF’ wouldn’t actually work.
Did you know python for loops have an else clause?
Did you also know it runs after the loop iterator is done, and not when there was never anything to iterate over at all?
i have a colleague always saying if loop (in our language). I’m a bit to shy to tell him his mistakes… People easily hate me but i would like to…
int* ihadatonepointforgottenaboutpoundefinesyoubastard {};
found the following in our codebase the other day.
while(booleanFlag) return;thhere wasn’t more in the loop body, that was it. the loop conditional does exist and it can hurt you.
10 print “All Work, No Play”
20 goto 10
30 end
