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Old February 26th, 2004, 11:37 AM

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Default Re: 2.08 and Incompatible Battle Reports

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Originally posted by Arryn:


EDIT: caveat: it actually is possible to force the compilers I've used into screwing this up. It involves tweaking settings so the compiler re-orders the statements so that it reads ...

b = a = 2d6

Which, of course, looks the same as your example to anyone who's not a gamer or mathematician. We know that 2 calls to "d6" do not necessarily return the same answer.
And you can also make them believe that '<' means '>', or for that matter that "=" in the code means 'print("I'm a genius")' . But we are here to help compilers do the right thing, not to screw their settings and help them be total idiots
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