#define if while // 🤪
Through the magic of make, you can write code that changes if statements to while loops then changes it back after compilation passes or fails.
I only give good advice.
int main() { useless: int x = 10; if (1) { goto useless; } }This is the real way!
Yea, I saw C style and was disappointed when it didn’t abuse gotos.
ELI5 plz
Statements that start with # in C/C++ are known as preprocessor directives, that is, they are executed before compilation begins. OP has used a
which will replace any instance of A (IF(x)) with B (while (x)) in the code.So the
IFstatement is really just awhilestatement.But what is it in reference to? What’s the “infamous if loop”?
Ah, I believe that would be
from a college course.I always wondered why I always had a hard time making developers not call “if” a “loop”.
Turns out it was on their tests.Glad I didn’t read my college material, or I would have lost faith in my college professors.
It just occurred to that in Yorkshire dialect a while loop would actually be an until loop. Directives to the rescue!
“Infamous” just refers to newbies who sometimes call if statements “if loops”. I’ve heard this quite a bit.
Infamous because the condition is 1 (or true), the loop never actually exits because it’s always true
i have a colleague always saying if loop (in our language). I’m a bit to shy to tell him his mistakes… People easily hate me but i would like to…
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