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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

Rant of the day time.

The C standards committee has added all this crap to C but they've still not fixed the lack of a ^^ operator for XOR of two logical expressions

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geert@society.oftrolls.com

Geert Uytterhoeven

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@etchedpixels !! ^ !!

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f4grx@chaos.social

F4GRX Sébastien

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@etchedpixels bring back all the B operators including =!= and =<=

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leah@blahaj.social

Leah Neukirchen

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@etchedpixels unnecessary, use !=

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ysegrim@furry.engineer

Ysegrim

Reply to @leah@blahaj.social

@leah @etchedpixels

'exactly one str is "apple"':

 strcmp("apple", s1) ^^ strcmp("apple", s2)

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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

Reply to @ysegrim@furry.engineer

@ysegrim @leah strcmp("apple", s1) != strcmp("apple", s2)

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pavel

Pavel Machek

Reply to @etchedpixels@mastodon.social
@etchedpixels @ysegrim @leah That one does not do what ysegrim asked for. Subtly broken :-).
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ysegrim@furry.engineer

Ysegrim

Reply to @pavel

@pavel @leah @etchedpixels I think !! should work (good suggestion!) ... Feels like quite a foot gun though

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mansr@society.oftrolls.com

Mans R

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@etchedpixels @ysegrim @leah Or !strcmp() ^ !strcmp(). No need for !! here.

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geert@society.oftrolls.com

Geert Uytterhoeven

Reply to @mansr@society.oftrolls.com

@mansr @etchedpixels @ysegrim @leah It looks way cooler with !!. Even more with !!!.

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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

Reply to @mansr@society.oftrolls.com

@mansr @ysegrim @leah 1 ^ -1 is not 0...

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etchedpixels@mastodon.social

The Penguin of Evil

Reply to @etchedpixels@mastodon.social

Sorry misread @mansr one - you are of course correct.

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