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Geek Culture / Repeated DBPRO syntax error habits

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2012 15:17
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Without fail, every so often I keep on doing this: Global Array(10). I still keep missing out the Dim statement 3 times out of 10 after all this time using the language.

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Indicium
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2012 15:18
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I often forget to close brackets. xD

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2012 16:48
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Yeah, I'm guilty of the brackets too. Sometimes I forget to put the 'then' in 'if then' statements and on one occasion forgot the 'if', I feel incredibly stupid because it took me forever to work out that it was what was causing my problems. Because I was using arrays the syntax highlighter just mentioned the arrays, so I sat there trying to figure out why some perfectly decent arrays weren't working.

Also forgetting to adjust my array counts, so I can sit there wondering for a few minutes why my arrays aren't working.

"Why isn't Array(12) working? Oh wait, there's only Dim Array(11) there."

However, I do tend to remember to dim my arrays before using them, so at least I'm not guilty of that.

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Van B
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2012 17:01
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My main DBPro one, which I do at least twice a month, is forgetting the brackets when reading mouse position (mousex,mousey).

With C++, it's semicolons, always damn semicolons - why can't it just add the semicolon itself if I've missed it!, instead the IDE stops and points, and laughs at my ineptitude. I hope I'm not alone in this.

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Posted: 2nd Feb 2012 17:10
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I'm actually much the opposite, Van B. I add semicolons to my DBP code

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Indicium
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2012 00:21
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I forget semicolons in c++, accidentally add semicolons in DBP, put brackets around my if statements in DBP and once I've even wrote endif; in c++.

So yeah, I try not to alternate too much.

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ShaunRW
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2012 01:41
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Accidentally spelling a variable wrong and wonder why it keeps returning 0. Use Break instead of EndCase. Always try to manipulate non-global variables inside functions.

C++, I always forget semicolons. Put Else inside the if like this:




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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2012 01:47
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Quote: "So yeah, I try not to alternate too much."


That's the cause of most of my silly errors too - the semi-colons being the most common issue these days. Just occasionally a silly error compiles. That causes no end of problems because you tend to interpret what you read as you read it so an error can be missed even if you read it several times. Can't think of an example off-hand but I know there've been a few.

Declaring variables as REALs rather than FLOATs is another favourite (goes back to my FORTRAN days ).
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ionstream
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2012 01:52
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Quote: "if(value=2)"


Double equals, bro!

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MrValentine
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2012 02:37
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Looks like were all guilty of the brackets... not our fault theyre so far up there out of reach

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