Debugging-Looking in the wrong places

JaWiB · 11-03-2003, 09:28 PM

Wow, I just spent about an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my code. I kept looking through all my classes because there was no way there was something wrong with the function since it was so simple...Turns out it was really simple:

Code:

for (int i=0;i<4;i++)
{
for (int i2=0;i<4;i++)
{

Yesss I'm never naming the second index of a nested loop anything close to the first one again

curlious · 11-03-2003, 10:50 PM

Having just read Code Complete one suggestion he makes is using more meaning full names for your index variables based on what they are used for. I think this would have helped in your case.

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JaWiB carry on Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,971	Debugging-Looking in the wrong places Wow, I just spent about an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my code. I kept looking through all my classes because there was no way there was something wrong with the function since it was so simple...Turns out it was really simple: Code: for (int i=0;i<4;i++) { for (int i2=0;i<4;i++) { Yesss I'm never naming the second index of a nested loop anything close to the first one again __________________ "Think not but that I know these things; or think I know them not: not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought." -John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671) "Work hard and it might happen." -XSquared
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curlious Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 450	Having just read Code Complete one suggestion he makes is using more meaning full names for your index variables based on what they are used for. I think this would have helped in your case.
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