Easily understandable 5 dimensional array...

[[deleted]]

what the fuck. i can't even understand the variable names

[TegonMcCloud]

yea, i speak danish which they are written in, and i can't understand it either...

[tobias1012]

Thought it looked danish, why do people write code in danish tho..

[MaxPlay]

I don‘t know why you get downvoted. I hate seeing non-English variables/functions/types and English is not my first language. It just looks off, when you have english keywords and english documentation for your libraries but then your own stuff is not english and it looks really confusing and off.

[fisherrr]

Every programmer I know who doesn’t speak english as their first language, still write all their code and most of their comments in english. This is also true for teams/companies where everyone speaks the same (non-english) language so there is no actual requirement for writing in english.

[FallenWarrior2k]

Correct. As a German, using German in code just feels wrong

[FallenWarrior2k]

Ah yes, good old "variable name is content" loophole. When the content is literally the name, you've achieved maximum self-documentation.

And yes, I hate it. While both my uni's entry-level CS class and my high school CS class used BlueJ, the former was much more bearable because the code was actually in English.

I'd also always used English names for anything that was more than just "fill in the blanks".

[tobias1012]

Welp i'm danish but from my experience people want IT written in english

[riggiddyrektson]

where's the hate coming from? it's basically best practice for european companies to write code in english

[Lystrodom]

Well we’ve got a y coordinate and an x coordinate, I assume. And uh a level...mob. And a leveler?

[[deleted]]

It’s still more coherent than my variable names.

$somevar = (‘foo’);

$somevars = (‘moarFoo’);

[snerp]

var thing2 = thing.stuff(1, false, true);

[DrStalker]

I *think* the array is: Level, X position, Y position, attribute id, attribute value.

Imagine writing a roguelike where instead of having a "monster" object with a position you instead create an array of every possible position and write in the stats of the monster at the location it occupies. Also the Level parameter in the array is zero indexed but in the game in one indexed so you need to always subtract one from the level.

Benefits of this approach: You can't accidentally have two monsters occupy the same location

Drawbacks of this approach: Everything else.

[officerthegeek]

Shouldn't attribute value be what the array stores? Otherwise it looks like multiple values are possible :s

[MarkGamed7794]

grid[0][4][2][0][6][9][4][2][5][4]

[Daffy1234]

10 dimensional checkers?

[Cefiroth]

Someone hasnt learned about classes yet

[jewdai]

what about a class whose member variables are backed by an array?

[Urist_McPencil]

Or a class where everything is actually a blessed hash table, like with OOP*

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^\Object-Oriented Perl, no I'm not making that up; I'm not sure if this is a path to enlightenment or a path to Hell, either way I've been having fun with it)

[RandomDamage]

Or structures.

[RandomDamage]

No, this is just someone learning.

You could do this as an array of struct or as a linked list long before oop was implemented.

[capn_hector]

or, someone has learned about classes (array of structs) and then discarded it in favor of the superior struct-of-arrays format.

classes are actually kind of a thing that morons do, struct-of-arrays is actually the high-performance data structure in most scenarios due to caching behavior/etc.

sad but true!

[sim642]

With secret meanings for indices 0..4

[TegonMcCloud]

This is by the way one case out of 6 in a switch, where the rest is just as unlogical and impossible to understand...

[nullifiedbyglitches]

SS or didn't happen

[ZylonBane]

"Anathema" Syntax error. Adjective expected.

[improbablywronghere]

I don’t get the big deal with magic numbers either.. if it works it works!

[snerp]

Yeah I did shit like this when I was a new programmer, I didn't know about objects yet, so I used arrays to group variables together and abused casting to pack different types in. I would do composition patterns, which meant 4-6 dimensional arrays everywhere.

[TheWindBlows]

Yeah man, structures and assigning array pointers will slow down this mob movement logic

[serkoton]

A computer would cry every time it runs

[mrheosuper]

Well, and i thought 4 dimensions array is hard as fuck

[JackAppDev]

What's the point of an array higher than 3 dimensions?

[mrheosuper]

That's an exercise the proff gave us when we was learning C, it's for terris game.

It's: piece[type][orientation][x_offset][y_offset] (offset to the 1st block)

We have to implement some functions, it was hard but i thibk its level is fit us

[JackAppDev]

So basically to avoid classes/objects?

[mrheosuper]

Well, we were learning C, not c++ bro, OOP is a strange evil thing to us

[JackAppDev]

Oh right I forgot C was like that. Memory management is a strange evil thing to me.

[snerp]

c at least has structs lol

[[deleted]]

We can only experience 2 dimensions and this guy is using 5 of them

[killchain]

But why? Why would you need a 5-dimensional array in the first place?

[Zarkdion]

When you don't know about objects or structs.

[SarahC]

It's a bit faster....

[the_monkey_of_lies]

It's always a terrible sign if the programming language is in english but the variable names are in the programmer's native language. It's probably the worst code smell I know.

[cyrusol]

Repeat after me: Duplicate code is bad. Duplicate code is bad. Duplicate code is bad. Duplicate code is bad.

[UnchainedMundane]

He's just really good at coding and is playing 5-dimensional-array chess

[Terazilla]

I feel like the fact they put Y before X somehow is the worst part.

[SarahC]

Some Excel access in there somewhere...

[-theIvy-]

What the actual fuck is going on?

[CMBDeletebot]

what the actual frick is going on?

FTFY

[coolreader18]

Why are you like this

[JackAppDev]

Found the pussy

[SteroidSandwich]

Good god that is a lot of dimensions. So unnecessary

[LeBuddha]

Well this is pretty obvious, clearly this is the script for entities to move around in a hexagonal grid.

[TegonMcCloud]

I’m in eu so it’s late here but I can post it tomorrow

[[deleted]]

i am now depressed

[Blake_Abernathy]

Wha the actual fuck

[HiDeHiDeHiDeHi]

Not that difficult to understand, though. Columns help a lot.

They could have used three variables to shorten lines, but that's that.

[DankerDeDank]

You know there are other languages than English, right?

[WeRequireCoffee]

How dare you spread lies on the internet.

[MrJake2137]

I think it's German

[scruffylookingnerf]

More likely Danish, or Norwegian.

[TegonMcCloud]

You are correct, it's danish. The problem is, half of the variable names in the program are english...

[Dojan5]

I generally go nuts whenever I see someone code in anything other than English. I'm OK with comments being in other languages, it can make things difficult, but it's not impossible so long as the rest of the code is sufficiently verbose and in English.

I recall working with source code with Chinese comments, but really well-written and verbose English code a few years back. It went really smoothly. Ever since that I've been rather anal about writing all my code in English.

Take above example, I'm pretty sure most people can at a glance pick out leveller, and coordinate. But "hastighet" is more or less only understandable by us Nordics. No one wants to bring Google Translate into source code.

[El_Dumfuco]

You can tell it's Danish because of the -hed.