Sometimes I waste hours of debugging on really really silly things…

Why do I keep thinking that e.g. 0 || 69 (typically written with variables obviously) in C would return 69 rather than 1?! Well it must be because C’s “booleans are just numbers” thing makes me think that the operators would also do… number things. No they don’t! >_<

True story:

A friend is writing some C++ in Visual Studio. There’s a template class with a copy constructor like this one:

    SomeThingClass(const SomeThignClass& other) { …

She asks me about the weird error on this line – something about the “return type is int by default” behavior from old C not being allowed anymore. What the hell, this is a constructor. We spend, like, ten minutes in a WTF state.

Then we decide to copy the code to my laptop and compile with clang.

 error: no template named 'SomeThignClass'; did you mean 'SomeThingClass'?

Moral of the story: even two people can just not notice a little typo where the oredr of lettres is swapepd. Computers are better at this. UNLESS THE COMPUTER IS RUNNING MSVC