The GD Coding Typo Dictionary (TM)

Max Optional · 2011-04-08T21:45:39

Let's admit it, we all make them. However, some are more amusing than others. For instance, I keep typing bugger instead of buffer. and PoopState instead of PopState. Also, I rather often type in an entirely unrelated and wrong word - for instance, last night I wrote lever instead of class. A while back I remember I was speed-coding and bleeding typos like a dyslexic Eskimo and I misspelt random as something like rdnadmod. The hardest part when something like that happens is winning that inner struggle and making the correct choice of deleting the entire word and re-typing it instead of trying to unmangle it one letter at a time, using cut and paste for single letters, because it just seems so right when you're coding like a mofo. I love typos - it's always great to see the compiler pop up a warning that VK_SHIFT is spelt with an f. Now share your golden puppies!

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Started by irreversible January 26, 2011 08:26 PM

37 comments, last by fastcall22 13 years ago

AndyEsser

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January 30, 2011 10:36 AM

Add a little spice to your headers

#define FASLE (true)

Genius. +1 from me

Aardvajk

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January 30, 2011 10:44 AM

I always giggle when I have to declare an INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX structure. I love common controls, but I don't really want to initialise sex with them.

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owl

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January 30, 2011 11:43 AM

I've been the entire last hour looking for this bug. To make it worst finding it didn't solve the problem cause it happened that I copy-pasted the if clause in several places that I also had to modify once I realized my stupidity.





	if (this_shouldnt_be_called_all_the_time);

                dont_do_this_all_the_time();

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irreversible

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Author

January 30, 2011 12:32 PM

I've been the entire last hour looking for this bug. To make it worst finding it didn't solve the problem cause it happened that I copy-pasted the if clause in several places that I also had to modify once I realized my stupidity.
if (this_shouldnt_be_called_all_the_time); dont_do_this_all_the_time();

Shouldn't the compiler pop a warning on something like this? Eg, "C7273 - Hey, silly - you didn't REALLY mean that semi, didya?"

owl

376

January 30, 2011 01:01 PM

'owl' said:

I've been the entire last hour looking for this bug. To make it worst finding it didn't solve the problem cause it happened that I copy-pasted the if clause in several places that I also had to modify once I realized my stupidity.
if (this_shouldnt_be_called_all_the_time); dont_do_this_all_the_time();

Shouldn't the compiler pop a warning on something like this? Eg, "C7273 - Hey, silly - you didn't REALLY mean that semi, didya?"

Apparently not. At least not gcc with ansi compatible warnings enabled.

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swiftcoder

18,997

January 30, 2011 02:01 PM

Apparently not. At least not gcc with ansi compatible warnings enabled.

The real WTF is that you are using -ansi in 2011. I hope you were using -pedantic -Wall as well?

Tristam MacDonald. Ex-BigTech Software Engineer. Future farmer. [https://trist.am]

owl

376

January 30, 2011 02:05 PM

'owl' said:

Apparently not. At least not gcc with ansi compatible warnings enabled.

The real WTF is that you are using -ansi in 2011. I hope you were using -pedantic -Wall as well?

I'm not following what's the problem with ansi. I do quite well with it.

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swiftcoder

18,997

January 30, 2011 02:11 PM

I'm not following what's the problem with ansi. I do quite well with it.

Given that it was superseded by C99, some 12 years ago., I fell it is a bit like beating a dead horse. Then again, big business managed to do that to COBOL for 20 years, so you are in good company

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owl

376

January 30, 2011 02:17 PM

'owl' said:

I'm not following what's the problem with ansi. I do quite well with it.

Given that it was superseded by C99, some 12 years ago., I fell it is a bit like beating a dead horse. Then again, big business managed to do that to COBOL for 20 years, so you are in good company

heh, you know what. You're right. I'm using just -Wall.