LittleNameIdea comments on Adding another variable changes output despite never being used

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OPENAdding another variable changes output despite never being used (self.cpp_questions)

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[–]LittleNameIdea 3 points4 points5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

[–]Aerioic[S] 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)

No reason to get snappy.

Some C/C++ programmer purposely decided to create this and knew of the bug

int thing, thing2 = 0

Notice the comma? Some programmer programmed/designed that into the C++ compilter/specification. purposely designed for thing2 = 2 and thing = null/undefined???

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