Re: Hacker MUDSTEALER ALERT

From: Angus Mezick (angus@EDGIL.CCMAIL.COMPUSERVE.COM)
Date: 11/03/97


1) addition and subtraction is supported?

2) the part about dividing by to is actually to test to see if they know what is
going on in bit vectors. Circle uses a lot of them, and I use more.

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Subject: Re:  Hacker MUDSTEALER ALERT
Author:  INTERNET:CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca at CSERVE
Date:    11/3/97 11:06 AM

>     A couple of fun questions to ask a potential coder:



>     How do you switch the position of 2 int variables without using a
>     temp variable?

It's a very bad idea to use the method I know you're thinking of. It's
not standard ANSI C, and isn't supported by a lot of the compilers that
Circle is portable to.

>     How would you divide by 2 with out '/'?

Why would you bother, when it takes away from the readability and
sense of the code and just about any compiler out there optimises
it anyway?

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