Addition Loop Problem

[Agamemnus]

It's good that he got a bunch of responses from you all, but...:

number += number

? A

ostr = str(number) + " + " + str(number) + " = " + str(number + number)

sub doubleit(seed as integer,bound as integer)

I don't know whether to say "LMAO" or cry.

[SSC]

heh i forgot '+=' is an FB thing

[KiZ]

I don't know whether to say "LMAO" or cry. :cry:

I get the same feeling when I see unindented code. Huh Aga???! huh huh huh!

[Agamemnus]

Indented code is just an excuse for complicated code!

And, I don't think += should be allowed at all, nor "?", nor functions for simple things like this, or variables named "ostr", in this example at least...

:evil: :evil: :evil:

Nothing personal.... I just don't like overcomplication OR oversimplification.. somewhat subjective, yes, but still...

I fear I may have created a monster when I suggested touched off the "merging QB/FB" proposition..

[RyanKelly]

Note that bad stuff will happen if you try - for some unknown reason - to do this recursively.

Ok, thanks for the advice. Skip the resursive function, Hybrid. :roll:

Actually, the same problems will crop up with any of the techniques posted. Trying to calculate 2^16 in with 16 bit signed integers in QB will generate an overflow error no matter how you do it.

[stylin]

RyanKelly, obviously you should use data types that meet - or perhaps exceed - whatever needs you have. If you plan on using numbers bigger than a certain data type can represent, then that's just poor design anyway.

My point was that recursion not only

1. makes this less readily apparent,
2. introduces new ways to confuse a debugger (you and me) about the source of the design problem, and
3. unnecessarily complicates an otherwise easy task.

With recursion, like anything else, use it when it makes code clearer, more elegant, more efficient or whatever your needs happen to be at the time.

[na_th_an]

[...] I don't think += should be allowed at all, nor "?"

? is in BASIC since the 70s. Try it.

[Agamemnus]

Tis, tis an old one in Basic I know... but it's just a bit old..

[stylin]

Tis, tis an old one in Basic I know... but it's just a bit old..

So is QBasic ... :roll: