test please delete

[Menelaus]

I doubt I'll ever get to work on anything quite so commendable as that during my career. When you hear of deaths due to these devices then I guess it's important to focus on the positive effect that your work can have - if you can glean something/anything useful from an IED encounter and put that to use saving lives then that is something. I wish you the very best of luck with it.

That's very kind of you, thank you.

Despite the credo of the freelancer being "never do owt without getting paid", I'm doing this for the sheer research interest in it and if I can prove that it works I'll be giving it to MoD for free.

I'm a former soldier and seeing guys being killed in such a random manner really gets on my nerves, tbh.

[BrilloPad]

It's to emphasise the distinction between assignment and testing for equality

That's why C-style languages use == for equality

I wish java used == for equality. or c++ used == ......

[voodooflux]

Despite the credo of the freelancer being "never do owt without getting paid", I'm doing this for the sheer research interest in it and if I can prove that it works I'll be giving it to MoD for free.

Kudos to you for that

[BrilloPad]

I went for a quick laydown at 7:30pm. Next thing I knw it was 8:30! I nearly missed torchwood......

[NickFitz]

I'm doing this for the sheer research interest in it and if I can prove that it works I'll be giving it to MoD for free.

I'm a former soldier and seeing guys being killed in such a random manner really gets on my nerves, tbh.

Kudos to you for that

WHS++

[NickFitz]

I wish java used == for equality. or c++ used == ......

I hate to tell you this...

(Although unless you are comparing primitive types, you should of course use - and if necessary override - the Object.equals() method )

As to what the C++ crowd get up to - well, years of reading their code in Dr Dobbs Journal has left me none the wiser

They probably redefine an operator or something:

#define ++ --;

like that --^

[BrilloPad]

I hate to tell you this...

(Although unless you are comparing primitive types, you should of course use - and if necessary override - the Object.equals() method )

As to what the C++ crowd get up to - well, years of reading their code in Dr Dobbs Journal has left me none the wiser

They probably redefine an operator or something:

#define ++ --;

like that --^

Opps. typo in my original post. I meant to say C++ should use equals.

Point being I have caught bugs before where coders used == instead of equals in java. It was a very good coder too!

[BrilloPad]

Morning all

[BrilloPad]

I really should do some w*rk.

[voodooflux]

Morning all