Re: Oracle/Google demonstrate human beings cannot write 10 lines
of code without making a mistake ;)
On 5/17/2012 5:16 PM, Skybuck Flying wrote:
Now it's becoming a computer programming language issue.
What is the definition of "range".
You cannot simply redefine the meaning of "range". As you did by writing
"inclusive" and then "exclusive" and flipping flopping whenever it suits
you.
The programming language known as C probably introduced the "curly brace
language".
Java is based on C and also uses the "curly brace language".
Since Java seems to be based of off C and is actually implemented in C
it's safe to say that the word known as "range" in computer language
follows the same meaning as it has in C.
Wikipedia is pretty clear about what "range" means in the programming
language C:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_(computer_programming)
Range is always inclusive unless otherwise stated.
But it was otherwise stated in the Java docs, so ....
Therefore a programmer seeing a prototype of "rangeCheck" without
actually seeing the body of the code should be safe to assume that range
encompanses all of the indexes, being inclusive.
A programmer would read the docs and understand what the code does.
Arne
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