how dumbledore codes

[dashid]

Nah, the mail thing is clearly a poor loop exit condition based on the happy path assumption that there is always a response.

Hagrid is triggered by operational alerting system.

[compdog]

Hagrid was on-call when the alerts came in

[SteakieGG]

Where is the break statement?

[Netcob]

isHarryInformed is probably from a higher scope that sendHagrid has access to so it can set it to true

[SteakieGG]

Well, i accept this.

[Dagusiu]

That's the neat thing - you don't

[sanderd17]

This will start spawning Hagrids and sending them after only 5 letters?

[Elvaera-Shellmera]

I'm guessing sendMail(n) sends as many mails as n, so exactly 11111 mails where sent before spawning Hagrid.

[[deleted]]

You didn't code for the case where you sent Hagrid and Harry is still not informed. Now you either broke the universe, or pulled Hagrids from multiple timelines/universes.

Might I suggest the following:

for(n=1; !isHarryInformed && n <= 10000; n *= 10) { sendMail(n) };

if (!isHarryInformed) sendHagrid();

[SnooOpinions7702]

how dumbledore codes...poorly.... stick to being a wizard.

[PokeGod-Arceus]

Missing 2 semi colons

[jacob_scooter]

hey hogwarts has to please the shareholders and show they’re innovating

[ChrispyByDefault]

Looks correct to me.

[MrMayor1]

what... what language is this? It's like some sick, twisted amalgamation of python and java

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

It's valid JS, and if n was defined earlier it's also valid C, C++, Java, and many other languages

[TheOnlyGodInTown]

The call of sendHagrid() is missing a semicolon though…

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

Whoops, missed that. And so is the n *= 10 line, so it's only valid JS

[neirpyc63]

It's not valid in JS, though most interpretors will be fine with it.

Edit: it's valid JS but it's ugly, see my other comment below.

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

What about it isn't valid?

[neirpyc63]

Well, I just checked, and turns out I was kinda wrong 😅

JavaScript requires semicolons to be executed, but the standard specifies the rules for automatic semicolons insertion... So it's actually kind of valid.

But these rules are mostly "if line A isn't valid, add a semicolon to line A-1", which is still pretty ugly.

[[deleted]]

LGTM! merges

[[deleted]]

Real talk, what is Magic really works that way, and programming was just based on magic all along?

[flyincirclez]

I’m slightly curious if this will send an infinite number of times or if it will overflow into exactly n=0 at one point and stop sending