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[Wednesday 19th November 2008 at 9:51 pm]

Thomas

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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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Comments:

From:

pteppic
Wednesday 19th November 2008 at 10:23 pm (UTC)

Nice!

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From:

olego
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 2:44 am (UTC)

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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From:

olego
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 2:45 am (UTC)

Err, I forgot a "not" there, but just as well. :-)

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From:

boggyb
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:08 pm (UTC)

There's something similar to that in today's WTF.

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From:

olego
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:32 pm (UTC)

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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From:

boggyb
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:37 pm (UTC)

thedailywtf_rss

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From:

tau_iota_mu_c
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:06 am (UTC)

Depends if foo's plus operator is overloaded to do something funky to RS or not :)

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From:

boggyb
Thursday 20th November 2008 at 10:08 pm (UTC)

This is plain old VBScript, so + really means +

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