Tim M

@dtl @bellinghman @simontatham AFAIK there's no way to express 0 as a decimal literal Hex 0x0 Binary 0b0 Octal 0 But no decimal literal representation https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal.html

@beecycling See also (well.. listen) to The Good Life, a single from my mate's High Concept Pub Rock and Roll band (as played last night at Biddle Bros pub in Hackney) https://open.spotify.com/album/2AK1Uju3zrl6y15ufvrPIe

@bellinghman@wandering.shop @dtl@8bitorbust.info @simontatham@hachyderm.io Yeah in practice it makes no difference as the types (int,long,char,etc) don't differentiate between octal and decimal and hex etc and the value of 0 is the same regardless (and they could have defined that 0 was decimal literal and 00 was the octal literal 0) but it's a fun bit of trivia when someone claims octal is dead and you can point out they use it all the time :)

@akahn Create a bookmark and set the text below as the URL, put that on his bookmark bar, and then that'll go to archive.is for any page he's on just by hitting the button (it's an example of a "bookmarket") javascript:var baseURL ='https://archive.is/newest/';location.href=baseURL+location.href

@shafik@hachyderm.io Not that bit but where it's then specifying a default member initialisation and the question is whether the default ctor sets the myCount to one fixed value from one evalaution of counter(), or whether "int myCount = counter();" specifies that counter() should be re-evaluated afresh in the generated ctor (which is what it does). The fact that it worked that way surprised at least 1 senior dev on our team

@Offbeatmammal@mastodon.social The temptation with hindsight is either simple self-justification or to beat yourself up with regret, where I personally think to look back and try to recall the reasoning at the time (the "Why?" of the moment) is I think is more informative as less judgemental... YMMV obv...