Re: variable problem is driving me nuts
Re: variable problem is driving me nuts
- Subject: Re: variable problem is driving me nuts
- From: gweston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:19:26 +0000 (GMT)
H Miersch wrote:
then why does Xcode complain about an unused result? this is just another example of a TOTALLY USELESS error message.
anyway, i fixed it, and now it works. thanks.
ok, it looks like i've sorted the original problem. but here's the next one:
i have this line:
for (i = 0; i++; i < count) {…}
in the app delegate. Xcode keeps giving me this warning: expression result unused. WTF? that is correct syntax for a for loop, isn't it? so then why do i keep getting this warning?
also, i have confirmed that the statements between { and } are NOT executed, no matter what. that's not right either. so WTF is going on here?
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no it's not even vaguely the right syntax for a for loop. You have
for( initialiser, iterator, condition )
it's supposed to be
for( initialiser, condition, iterator )
that's just basic C
The problem is that while it's not, as the prior poster indicated, the right syntax for a working for loop it's not actually illegal syntax in general. for(a;b;c) {d} means precisely:
a; while(b != 0) { d; c; }
Your original code is perfectly legal if you consider it that way. It just wasn't doing what you wanted.
And why was your code never executing?
Because i++ evaluates to i and *then* increments i in place. Since i was zero on the first pass it bailed out immediately. If you had used ++i instead, it would've run through the entire space of whatever type i is.
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