There is a lesser used function called Succ too. I.E
for i := 1 to Succ( Count ) do which is the same as for i:= 1 to count + 1 do ----- Original Message ----- From: Kurt at iadvance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Friday Challange > Neven MacEwan wrote: > > Tracey > > > > Stylistic really I also finding typing pred(Count) is less error > > prone the - 1 sometimes gets lost > > > > N > > Nice, I'm _gonna_ do this, given that about 2 weeks ago I caused a > *nasty* bug by accidentally checking in a function which deleted '+ 1' > from the creation of a unique id. > > Because the new and old versions were accessing the same ids, > the old versions were giving out (current n) + 1, then incrementing n, > and the new version would then give out (current n) > which was equal to previous n + 1. > > Yay, love side effects. > > Unique ids? We doan need no steenkeen unique ids. > > Cheers, Kurt. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
