== Quote from Lutger Blijdestijn (lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com)'s article > Walter Bright wrote: > > Jonathan M Davis wrote: > >> On and Off would be much better, but I suspect that it's one of those > >> things where they chose symbols instead so that they didn't have to worry > >> about internationalization. That way, it confuses _everyone_ instead of > >> just non- English speakers. ;) > > > > I suspect as much, too, but at least "on" and "off" can be looked up in a > > dictionary. There's no hope for O and |. > I always assumed they meant 0 and 1. Then it's easy, just put it in an if() > statement :)
On the note of if statements. One pattern of bugs I see on the odd occasion are else statements written like this: if (condition1) if (condition2) statement1; else statement2; Always takes a moment or two to look again and realise it wouldn't work as expected without the missing braces added. ;)