tordek

I would like to know the reasoning behind this. It sure seems clever but what is the advantage that this provides?

Since C provides very little metaprogramming capabilities, this was the only way to obtain what I wanted: Most (if not all) other testing libraries/frameworks require some boilerplate to start testing (namely: defining your `main` function, which calls all of your tests). Additionally, every time you write a new test, you must remember to add it to your `main` function.

I decided that those two things were bothersome enough, so I wrote a proof of concept that evolved into a large project with tons of useful features beyond that.

Additionally, how would you signal "End of List"?

Would you mind expanding a bit on the usage of Range?

The simplest case involving items is clearly `items=10-20`, but that has its own set of problems (your set must be ordered; I assume you'd use the key you're sorting over as your `ranges-unit`).

The place where this solution seems less than ideal is when you want to start from an id, but get a certain number of items. That is, the "infinite scroll" use case: If you simply do "sort by date, discard 10, return next 10 items", then you have a race condition where you do your first request, a second agent adds a new item, and you do your second request: the last item from the previous page is now the first item from the current page.

So, ideally, I want to request: "Ordered by date, where id > <last-id>, 10 items".

If you're strict about the definitions of `Range`, this doesn't seem possible.

Maybe the best way to do this would be `Range: items=decacfb98eface89+10` or similar?

Of note: There are several of us in #mongrel2 on Freenode, and there are periodic patches from us :).

But that makes no sense, it is whitespace, and it has semantic significance (hence being significant). Whitespace was not significant in older versions of Fortran, and that allowed you to write

    DO30I=10,100

    DO 30 I = 10, 100

    DO 30 I = 10. 100

    DO30I = 10.1

In your last example, `.find('.more_stuff')` works on the value returned from `.addClass('other')` (or so it'd seem), so it behaves differently.

As said elsewhere: "Declaration follows use".

    int *foo;

    int *foo;
    foo = 50;

    int *foo;
    *foo = 50;

    int *foo[50];

From there follows that & is the antithesis of , and they negate each other:

    int *foo; //foo is a pointer to int.
    &*foo; //the address of the contents of foo
    foo; // same as above, but shorter.

How so?

         +-----------+
         | +-+       |
         | ^ |       |
    char *foo[10][20];
     ^   ^   |       |
     |   +---+       |
     +---------------+

> Wait are you saying I have to be content with who I am?

When did he ever tell you to stop bettering yourself?

> What do you mean I can't expect my employer to validate my passions in life?

Because your passions are yours, and yours alone. You could get miraculosuly lucky and get an employer that shares some of your passions and lets you work in them... or you could remove chance from the equation and write code on your own, and open source it.

http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/cto.html

Millions of numbers in a single megabyte may be interesting.

I'm righty and can only raise my right one. But I can also jiggle my left ear...

That's the way spanish is pronounced.

Radio is "Rradio".

I've found amusing how some people who learn english as a second language end up pronouncing spanish as "espanish", since no spanish word begis with s(consonant), except for sh.

Argentinian here... and I'd usually extend the o, not the r, so "Estuvimos allí poor un rato."

Anywhere I can look up on their definitions?

So? Back in the day they were. That's his point. And IE, that people hate so much, came up with them.

Would you way wheels aren't innovations because they've been around for a long time?

It annoyed me that he said "feel free to correct my math," yet there is no way to contact him.

There aren't 504 ways (P(9,3)), but only 84 (C(9,3)), since order is irrelevant.