Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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C++ should be called ++C (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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According to syntax postfix increment returns copy of unmodified variable (C++ == C), while prefix increment returns incremented variable (++C == C + 1).

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why not invent even more notations? We did YYYY.MM.DD at work.

[–] dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just please don't do yyyyMMdd with each field being optional and possibly one or two characters.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I personally do YYYY.MM.DD for all of my personal filing. Sue me.

Edit: personally, of course.