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[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 months ago (3 children)

x += 1; // Increases x by one

[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

// increase the dynamically allocated memory space of a word sized integer stored at the memory address represented by the symbol "x" by the integer 1 and terminate the instruction

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait why is it dynamically allocated and why are you increasing the memory. Something is very wrong here

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Found the bug. Thank goodness for comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh, is this what they meant by "commenting your code"?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why the heck does it need to be dynamically allocated? Just put that puppy on the stack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That's what it used to do.
But it was a bug, and the code has been fixed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

...Years later
x += config.increment; // Increases x by one

"""
config.yaml
increment: -2
"""
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

x++; // Move X position forward by one

There, I made that kind of comment more useful!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

x++; // Set x to the incrementation of the value of x
Much better.

[–] Jakylla 2 points 9 months ago

// Move to the right