Thread locks too soon

Thread locks too soon

Gideon Weems

Member #3,925

October 2003

jmasterx said:

For those who saw it already:

I might add:

free(h); // Because h = 0 leads to an interpreter error.
f += r;
atexit(ls);

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Bruce Perry

Member #270

April 2000

That fills me with joy. Someone sigged me once for saying that most of the arguments I'd seen against global variables seemed to be religious

Now, that said, I have the opposite problem. I'm having to work in C++ a bit, and I missed nested methods the other day. So, how did I solve it? I now have four copies of that code, and I condensed each copy into a single line to keep it 'manageable'

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Chris Katko

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January 2002

Bruce Perry said:

C++ a bit, and I missed nested method.

I'm so pissed off at the basic, great features C++ can't be bothered to add. Plenty of them can be nothing more than syntactic sugar and have no real impact on the assembly generated.

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jmasterx

Member #11,410

October 2009

Chris Katko said:

I'm so pissed off at the basic, great features C++ can't be bothered to add. Plenty of them can be nothing more than syntactic sugar and have no real impact on the assembly generated.

C++ is supposed to be difficult to learn and use... that's a core part of the language. You have to feel like you're working really hard and need to write huge amounts of boilerplate code to feel that C++ satisfaction!

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amarillion

Member #940

January 2001

So does this thread now prove that threads actually don't lock too soon? I'm confused?!?!

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jmasterx

Member #11,410

October 2009

No, if they did not lock too soon we wouldn't have to create this spam-fest to keep it alive >:(

Point being - Threads have to be kept alive with spam... otherwise, people could just reply when there is something meaningful to say...

Moreover, threads that get locked too soon often cause new child threads to spawn under the same topic because there are too few users on the forum anymore and often 5 days is not enough time for someone to answer a programming or other question...

We're revolting! Vive la revolution! >:(

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

jmasterx said:

My New Years Resolution ... will ofcourse be 4K.... but I also plan to use a lot more Global Variables and Global State in my code. Despite what Bambam has lectured about Globals, they are actually incredibly great and lead to less refactoring in the long run and an overall simpler and cleaner codebase.

In fact, had ML used a global $threadTimeout, we would not have needed this thread!
>:(

Bruce Perry said:

That fills me with joy. Someone sigged me once for saying that most of the arguments I'd seen against global variables seemed to be religious

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Mark Oates

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Arguments about globals are religious bam, you suck!

Also, we have already established that despite ML's exemplary use of object inheritance, he has also seen the way and has released his burden of the spaghetti to the way of the global.

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Peter Hull

Member #1,136

March 2001

Bruce Perry said:

I'm having to work in C++ a bit, and I missed nested methods the other day.

What are you using that does have nested methods? I thought you were a Java person.

These days I think you can use C++11 lambdas to get the effect of nested methods, can't you?

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July 2006

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Bruce Perry

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Peter Hull said:

What are you using that does have nested methods? I thought you were a Java person.

Lately I've been mostly C#, since we're working with Unity. It's probably at least two years since I really did any Java (except for finishing Confined off).

And no, C# doesn't have nested methods either. Perhaps I feel more comfortable finding ways around it by making classes in C# because there's less boilerplate involved...

Quote:

These days I think you can use C++11 lambdas to get the effect of nested methods, can't you?

You can. I wonder how well or badly it optimises... (Last thing you want is a function pointer call when a normal function call would have sufficed.)

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Chris Katko

Member #1,881

January 2002

Peter Hull said:

These days I think you can use C++11 lambdas to get the effect of nested methods, can't you?

The issues there are because they're designed to solve another problem so:

1 - Possible speed issues, as was brought up.

2 - Restriction issues. A lambda can be passed around. A nested function is supposed to never leave.

Gideon Weems

Member #3,925

October 2003

Pop quiz, hot shot! Without looking, which thread has a higher word count? This one or the Zelda/feminism thread?

  This thread:  1618
Zelda debacle:  4155

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Bruce Pascoe

Member #15,931

April 2015

Admittedly though, the Zelda thread seems to be generating far more heat than light.

Erin Maus

Member #7,537

July 2006

Gideon Weems said:

Pop quiz, hot shot! Without looking, which thread has a higher word count? This one or the Zelda/feminism thread?

Well, that puts it in perspective. You know, I write something and then add some more, stream-of-consciousness-like. Reword, rephrase, restructure... And then I realize I worded something wrong, or something is too vague, so I elaborate a bit more. Repeat that more times than I care to count... And when I proof it, I realize I just wasted up to half an hour (or more, who knows) writing the post. So simply not posting means the half an hour was completely wasted. But while posting means I did something, I also am adding to a pointless conversation... and oh no, it's happening again!

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Gideon Weems

Member #3,925

October 2003

Aaron Bolyard said:

Well, that puts it in perspective.

I thought so, too. I also think that it is unfair (perhaps even unreasonable) to write off recent forum activity as low volume. Rather, with longer, more thought-out (sometimes) posts, we are in a golden age of volume.

And I will always be there with one-line zingers when you need them.

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Thomas Fjellstrom

Member #476

June 2000

Almost to new years, It's already 2016 in the Philippines. I'm celebrating with my wife right now!

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jmasterx

Member #11,410

October 2009

Peter Hull said:

ps. I can't see this thread staggering on into 2016, can you?

>:(

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Peter Hull

Member #1,136

March 2001

@jmasterx : I'm basing my assertions on GMT. This may be the last post.

jmasterx

Member #11,410

October 2009

Looks like this thread has broken a.cc
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Page 1? Where are you!?

That or M.L broke the site trying to delete this thread ::)

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Mark Oates

Member #1,146

March 2001

I get 4 pages
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but I view 50 replies per page
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Bruce Pascoe

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April 2015

He's right, there's literally no Page 1. I figured it was just cutting off the earlier pages due to being so far in (like most forums do), but even go to page 2 and there's still no option to select page 1.

bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

I view unlimited posts per page like a boss. Who has time or patience for replying to multiple pages when your machine has billions and billions of bytes of working memory? >:(

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Mark Oates

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March 2001

Ok, so I was trolling online to look for a gif of a person scrolling a mouse over and over...

...but then I found this actual picture of Thomas Fjellstrom in the Philippines right now:
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so yea, that was way better.

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July 2006

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