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Re: Component File Sample (long)

Wed, 10 December 2003 20:37

Sotek

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boneandrew wrote on Wed, 10 December 2003 18:24

The tech requirement for "no tech" should be 0, not -1. You can use a simpler data storage. And seeing if something is non-zero is slightly easier to check than seeing if something is positive (for miniturization, for example).

A miniturization option's precisely why it'd be a good idea to use a -1.

What if I want to modify things slightly so that the scout hull miniturizes from const only?

It'd be easy enough to do with -1 tech requirement.

And speaking as a programmer, -1 is a very common value for 'does not exist', and it's nice to be consistant like that...
...and you can't get much simpler data storage than the basic integer, which, I should point out, is a signed variable.

And to check if it's positive?

if (variable > -1 ).

Simple and explicit.

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		Component File Sample (long) By: overworked on Thu, 10 July 2003 14:00
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: overworked on Thu, 10 July 2003 14:07
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: LEit on Thu, 10 July 2003 14:18
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Sinla on Fri, 11 July 2003 10:05
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: LEit on Fri, 11 July 2003 11:30
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Hatterson on Fri, 25 July 2003 22:10
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Korsar on Thu, 10 July 2003 23:00
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: LEit on Thu, 10 July 2003 23:53
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Crusader on Fri, 11 July 2003 00:17
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Korsar on Fri, 11 July 2003 05:52
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: boneandrew on Wed, 10 December 2003 18:24
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Sotek on Wed, 10 December 2003 20:37
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: boneandrew on Fri, 12 December 2003 01:16
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: nash on Tue, 23 December 2003 19:08
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: LEit on Tue, 23 December 2003 20:58
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: Sumo_Sniper on Thu, 05 February 2004 10:31
		Re: Component File Sample (long) By: edorfaus on Sun, 28 March 2004 13:00

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