One thing most text editors can do is print. I was shocked the other day when I couldn’t print a readme from vscode when someone asked for hard copy.
One thing most text editors can do is print. I was shocked the other day when I couldn’t print a readme from vscode when someone asked for hard copy.
This is why I fear activating any AI features in the IDE.
Compiler/interpreter: Can’t find variable farfignewton
.
Earlier:
Me: Declare variables near, far
IDE: Oh! You mean farfignewton
right? I found that in some completely unrelated library you didn’t write. Allow me complete that for you while you’re not paying attention.
I saw while(i --> 0)
in someone else’s code and thought wth is this -->
operator? Then I realized it’s while(i-- > 0)
and thought cool, I gotta do this!
Fair, though I guess my interpretation was that
void*
is kind of like a black hole in that anything can fall into it in an unsettling way that loses information about what it was?