Topic: I just realized what I got wrong on a programming test this morning!

[Kairon]

No!
NO!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[MarioAllStar]

I hate it when that happens.

[Smoke39]

You forgot to put a semicolon at the end of your class declaration, didn't you.  I hate that stupid thing.  What's the point of it, anyway?  Close curly brace isn't enough closure? O:<

[KnowsNothing]

You declared your variable locally instead of globally.

[MarioAllStar]

You forgot to validate user input resulting in a pathetically huge potential for buffer overflow.

(This must stop.)

[Caliban]

I know my rights, I want my phone call.

[Kairon]

I forgot that the member variable was static.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[KDR_11k]

That's why C++ allows variables that don't belong to classes because static member variables rarely make any sense.

[nitsu niflheim]

this is boring.

[Kairon]

I don't know... I think that *this is pretty neat, but I guess we'll see next test.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Smoke39]

What's the difference between normal casting and reinterpret casting?

[KDR_11k]

Your supervisor will kill you for using the latter.

[Smoke39]

I think my CS280 professor wants us to use it in our memory managers (for casting a big, dynamically allocated char array to a struct with a pointer, for ease of accessing the first 4 bytes for a linked list).