programming is easy.

[solipsistnation]

Nathan: Steve, you know how ++ will increment, right?
Steve: Right ....
Nathan: Okay, so how do you increment by 11?

(from The Daily WTF)

Comments

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Sounds like some of my coworkers...

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I can't program my way out of a paper bag, but wouldn't you do something like:

WHILE i < i + 11
i++

?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

well, yes and no. See, if you do that, i changes while you're looping, so i will ALWAYS be less than i+11...

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Like I said. Trapped in the paper bag that is algorithms.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Or, you could just do $i = $i + 11.
Just a thought.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Oh. *headdesk* (If it wasn't clear already, I think like an engineer, not a programmer.)

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[booniesjen.livejournal.com]

Nice! :)

[st-darwin.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of modern programming languages have the SpinalTap() operator, which will increment by 11...

[mazianni.livejournal.com]

I liked the suggestion to use:

++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;++i;


Although I think St. Darwin has something with SpinalTap()

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

My favorite was the overloading suggestion.

[memetic-glutton.livejournal.com]

The switch is my favourite.

It's scary how close that is to some "real" code I see at work though...