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Simple Boolean question
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:01 pm
by pickle
Hi All,
I was wondering if there's a simpler way to write this line:
I know it's pretty simple as it is, but I just can't stop thinking that there's a simpler way. Obfuscation is no object!!
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:47 am
by Lord Sauron
???,
This must be about the shortest and most unclear question ever

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:41 am
by pickle
I want to use fewer characters to do the same thing as:
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:30 am
by feyd
I don't think there is a fewer characters way.. really.. other than shortening the variable name.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:35 am
by anjanesh
LOL
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:55 am
by pickle
Ok, I was just wondering. It was just nagging at me that it was more complicated than it needed to be. Ah well, thanks for putting my mind to rest

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:48 pm
by John Cartwright
i dont see how thats complicated at all..
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:24 pm
by Illusionist
how is it more complicated than it should be? what do you think it should be? Or how could it be easier? I think
Is pretty easy if you know that ! means not
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:28 pm
by feyd
problem is.. that's always false.

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:53 pm
by Illusionist
just as
would also always be false...
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:16 pm
by feyd
actually, no.. your's doesn't set.. only checks.. pickles sets to the negation.
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:00 pm
by Illusionist
ahh yes, i forgot, I was thinking of something different! haha my bad!

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:15 am
by pickle
Well, you know how
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$var = $var + 1; /*can be written*/ $var++;
I was just thinking maybe there was a simple shortcut like
or something.
The question was meant more as a curious pipe dream than a problem I was dealing with. Thanks anyway folks.