What about stacks grows to higher addresses?
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Error handling should only be with "if"
Variable names must be generic and similar to each-other
Debugging is only done with prints
Version numbers must be incoherent, hard to order correctly, contain letters and jump in ways that don't align with the updates done.
Variable names should be var{n} where n = 0, 1, 2...
Halfway to Lua lol
From this point on, all arrays are reverse-indexed.
♾️-0 ♾️-1 ...
Hey now, you know that according to the Bible the biggest number is a million. Anything larger than that including infinity is some of that "woke shit".
Your array will be 999,999, 999,998, 999,997 ...
reverting main back to master
Yeah...this one is sadly on brand
For this political correctness you get trunk.
Sadly? Master branch never implied the existence of a slave branch. It was one of the dumbest pieces of woke incursion into tech.
But why even? There's no risk to changing it and some risk to keeping it. That's the reason for the push to change it. Keeping something just because it's tradition isn't a good idea outside ceremonies.
Yeah agreed. Just another piece of white devs acting like they knew better for everyone.
Yes exactly. It’s a reference to the recording industry’s practice of calling the final version of an album the “master” which gets sent for duplication.
Git default branch renamed back from main to master
(Someone else made it but I can't find the source)
Would be the most sane thing he's ever done.
That one actually seems plausible, if he ever learns about that whole thing
and all the others start with "slave/"
He’s got to be in contact with the CEO of my company, this is trade secret theft if not…
GTFOH with that. 1-indexed arrays?! You monster.
(Mostly joking... Ok, somewhat joking :P )
Visual Basic used to let you choose if you wanted to start arrays at 0 or 1. It was an app-wide setting, so that was fun.
I've not heard that name in a long time...
Lua has entered the chat
This is one of the few things that I really don't like any Lua. It's otherwise pretty decent and useful.
Writing Lua code that also interacts with C code that uses 0 indexing is an awful experience. Annoys me to this day even though haven't used it for 2 years
Lua had been banned from the chat
In Lua all arrays are just dictionaries with integer keys, a[0] will work just fine. It's just that all built-in functions will expect arrays that start with index 1.
PHP did that same thing. It was a big problem when algorithmic complexity attacks were discovered. It took PHP years to integrate an effective solution that didn't break everything.
Your argument isn't making me any happier - it just fills me with more rage.
That's slightly misleading, I think. There are no arrays in Lua, every Lua data structure is a table (sometimes pretending to be something else) and you can have anything as a key as long as it's not nil. There's also no integers, Lua only has a single number type which is floating point. This is perfectly valid:
local tbl = {}
local f = function() error(":(") end
tbl[tbl] = tbl
tbl[f] = tbl
tbl["tbl"] = tbl
print(tbl)
-- table: 0x557a907f0f40
print(tbl[tbl], tbl[f], tbl["tbl"])
-- table: 0x557a907f0f40 table: 0x557a907f0f40 table: 0x557a907f0f40
for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
print(key, "=", value)
end
-- tbl = table: 0x557a907f0f40
-- function: 0x557a907edff0 = table: 0x557a907f0f40
-- table: 0x557a907f0f40 = table: 0x557a907f0f40
print(type(1), type(-0.5), type(math.pi), type(math.maxinteger))
-- number number number number
Fortran angrily starts typing...
Don't do my boy Lua dirty like that >:(
I always felt that Lua was a girl
Lua - Portuguese feminine noun for "moon", coming from the Latin "luna"
Luna - Latin, feminine noun (coincidentally identical to the Italian noun, also feminine)
Yup, Lua is a girl.
NGL, this kind of form of putting the decisions the monkey-in-charge is making in a way experts in a field will understand, is a very good way to showcase the absurdity.
Are there really people capable of understanding this who aren't capable of understanding, for example, "tariffs increase inflation"?
I started reading that from the top and got increasingly angry on the way down. That creature is a monster.
Haven't heard of the stack address thing, anyone got a TLDR on the topic?
TL;DR: For historical reasons stacks growing down is defined in hardware on some CPUs (notably x86). On other CPUs like some ARM chips for example you can technically choose which direction stacks go but not conforming to the historical standard is the choice of a madman.
Pretty sure that it’s something a long the lines of “stack begins high, grows down, while heap behind low grows high” when they meet, it’s a stack overflow
Dynamic stacks are pretty common in the most popular scripting languages, but considered bad practice from folks who use systems languages
didn't know donny was a forth programmer