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Bug of the day: While Not RS.EOF foo = foo + 1 Wend As with all… - 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe — LiveJournal
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[Wednesday 19th November 2008 at
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Bug of the day:
While Not RS.EOF
foo = foo + 1
Wend
As with all blindingly obvious bugs, it managed to survive a code walkthrough.
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pteppic
Wednesday 19th November 2008 at 10:23 pm (UTC)
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Nice!
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olego
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 2:44 am (UTC)
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Ha! Kinda reminds me of that poem, about that programmer, who had something like
while (eflags.overflow)
foo++;
that baffled everyone.
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olego
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 2:45 am (UTC)
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Err, I forgot a "not" there, but just as well. :-)
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Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:08 pm (UTC)
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There's something similar to that in
today's WTF
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olego
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:32 pm (UTC)
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Wow, that's intense.
I've also encountered mild examples of this, but not something that looped from 1 cent to 999,99 cents. Man, I need to read this site more. :)
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boggyb
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:37 pm (UTC)
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Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:06 am (UTC)
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Depends if foo's plus operator is overloaded to do something funky to RS or not :)
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Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:08 pm (UTC)
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This is plain old VBScript, so + really means +
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