this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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That's not a real operator. You've put a space in "i--" and removed the space in "-- >". The statement is "while i-- is greater than zero". Inventing an unnecessary "goes to" operator just confuses beginners and adds something else to think about while debugging.
And yes I have seen beginners try to use <-- and --<. Just stop it.
Where do you think we are?
The sheer number of people that do not expect a joke on this community... (Really, if you are trying to learn how to program pay attention to the one without the
Humoron the name, not here.)Well, I guess nobody expects.