dice generator problems

[Ben Bacarisse]

True, thanks. As has been said many times before, catching all errors
is complicated, even with strtol to help.

Practically, I think that's the least of the problems
here: and limiting the number of dice that generated to LONG_MAX-1 isn't
going to reduce the utility of the program that much.

I agree, but that is not what is happening (yet). strtol is used only
to find two numbers to add (truly bizarre, but I don't want to try to
find out why this is done).

If, later, the program were to use strtol to find the upper limit of
the dice roll, then a bunch of other problems spring up, not least the
fact the RAND_MAX may be a lot smaller than LONG_MAX.

 

[Richard Bos]

only slightly. in what way does it relate to C programming? Why not
just on comp.programming and ask "what language has a syntax of X"?

'cause they'd probably not know which language it is, unless certain
people read that group.

It's Inform 6.

Richard

 

[Seebs]

It's Inform 6.

Ayup.

Didn't think the specific language was relevant, just thought it was
neat that the syntax did exist. And I'd forgotten about Icon, but I've
used that too.

-s

 

[Richard Bos]

Many languages (though not low-level ones like C) had an "in" operator.
For example, SQL:

WHERE fld in (a,b,c)

Yah. But unlike those languages, Icon does actual, backtracking,
pattern-matching.

Yes, this is beautiful.

Yes, this is horrendous.

Richard