February 25th, 2004, 11:23 PM
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Re: 2.08 and Incompatible Battle Reports
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Originally posted by Arryn:
what this basically amounts to is an issue of (no offense to IW intended) somewhat sloppy coding practice by programmers... all too often (programmers) try to cram as much code as possible into a single line. That's just begging for trouble.
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Hahaha... My lines are rarely less than 5X that long, and would be longer with a bigger monitor. Parenthesis do not help you if a compiler ignores your instruction ordering.
The problem here is that the lines are NOT LONG ENOUGH! The Microsoft compiler sees a simple rearrangement it can do to break inter-OS compatibility, and does it. If the lines are so long and confusing that the compiler can't figure out how to mutate them without breaking the program, it will just process them in order like it is supposed to 
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