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Lol, nerd sigs:
faiuwle wrote:#define FEMALE
Skomakar'n wrote:#undef FEMALE
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Sorry couldn't resist

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Qwynegold wrote:Lol, nerd sigs
What are they? Nerd nerds? Come on this is the ZBB. We're all ultragiga nerds. I mean, not even the badass nerd would deal with Athabaskan diachronics or Rendaku, or do language reconstruction for fcking fun XD

Edit: Fuck, I called myself an ultranerd, of the second type
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they are nerdissimus inter nerdes
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Kereb wrote:they are nerdissimus inter nerdes
That's a quote in and of itself

"They are übernerds among nerds"
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Kereb wrote:they are nerdissimus inter nerdes
Oh god, we truly are nerdy. My first instinct was "why didn't he just use sunt and have it all in Latin?".

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Darkgamma wrote:Sorry couldn't resist

On the ZBB:
Qwynegold wrote:Lol, nerd sigs
What are they? Nerd nerds? Come on this is the ZBB. We're all ultragiga nerds. I mean, not even the badass nerd would deal with Athabaskan diachronics or Rendaku, or do language reconstruction for fcking fun XD

Edit: Fuck, I called myself an ultranerd, of the second type
Well, programmer nerds. :wink:

What's scary about rendaku btw?
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Qwynegold wrote:
Darkgamma wrote:Sorry couldn't resist

On the ZBB:
Qwynegold wrote:Lol, nerd sigs
What are they? Nerd nerds? Come on this is the ZBB. We're all ultragiga nerds. I mean, not even the badass nerd would deal with Athabaskan diachronics or Rendaku, or do language reconstruction for fcking fun XD

Edit: Fuck, I called myself an ultranerd, of the second type
Well, programmer nerds. :wink:

What's scary about rendaku btw?
Do you see anyone outside Japan and linguistics knowing about it?
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Darkgamma wrote:Do you see anyone outside Japan and linguistics knowing about it?
Oh, I thought you were giving examples of difficult stuff. Rendaku is a little difficult too, but it has nothing on Athabaskan though.
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Qwynegold wrote:
Darkgamma wrote:Do you see anyone outside Japan and linguistics knowing about it?
Oh, I thought you were giving examples of difficult stuff. Rendaku is a little difficult too, but it has nothing on Athabaskan though.
No, I was giving examples of connerdy stuff xD
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Unless I'm mistaken, that's not how you use #define. Shouldn't a true nerd use it correctly? :P

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Well, I guess I'm not a nerd, then. It's been a while since I used C. So educate me - what does "#define" do when it has no second argument?

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Chuma wrote:Well, I guess I'm not a nerd, then. It's been a while since I used C. So educate me - what does "#define" do when it has no second argument?

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#define thing

int main(){
	cout << "hello!" << endl << "bye!" << endl;
	return 0;
}
compiled without error, and ran successfully, outputing what one would expect it to output.

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hello!
bye!
Though this is C++, not C...

It might just ignore it, or something, I don't know what exactly it does, aside that it isn't an error, and the compiler doesn't give a warning either.
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It just defines it as an existing token. So you can put #define DEBUG somewhere at the top of the program, and then test for #ifdef DEBUG (or #ifndef DEBUG) later on. This is fairly useful/common. It's also how you avoid problems with including headers multiple times.

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#define DEBUG

// code

#ifdef DEBUG
cout << "Debug message that end-users will never see, because this code won't be compiled into the program if you comment out the define statement." << endl;
#endif

// code
All of my header files go more or less like this:

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#ifndef HEADERFILENAME_H
#define HEADERFILENAME_H

// class definition

#endif
So if you have already included that header file (and HEADERFILENAME_H is already defined), the entire file will be ignored by the compiler.

While I originally meant "#define FEMALE" to mean "I am female", I think a better (and just as useful!) translation might be "there are women on the internet" or "there are female programmers". Of course, people use #define for all sorts of things, but except for the DEBUG example, I'd probably just use a variable for the former meaning. And in practice, I don't use DEBUG a lot anyway, because I am generally lazy and just add debug messages to diagnose problems, rather than as a general assessment.
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faiuwle wrote:While I originally meant "#define FEMALE" to mean "I am female", I think a better (and just as useful!) translation might be "there are women on the internet" or "there are female programmers".
one problem is that by using a single define for femaleness (rather than #undef MALE in addition or instead) your code internalizes the patriarchy by classifying females as the exception, a special thing to be marveled at: oh how amazing there is a girl on the internet, let's all stare

also from a biological perspective females are the default, so there it should be
#undef MALE /* No Y chromosome found */
though a biological view of gender is an oversimplification

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Bob Johnson wrote:your code internalizes the patriarchy by classifying females as the exception, a special thing to be marveled at: oh how amazing there is a girl on the internet, let's all stare
My purpose was communication, not political statement. In any case, maleness (and whiteness, and straightness, etc.) is the default assumption in a lot of places (not just the internet) and pretending that it isn't doesn't change that. Acknowledging that and taking it into account when deciding how to communicate something is not internalizing the patriarchy. You might interpret Sko's sig as internalizing the patriarchy in this way (by asserting that maleness is the absence of femaleness) but I'm pretty sure it was just meant to be taken as continuation of mine (assuming that the posts in one page/thread form one sequence of code).
also from a biological perspective females are the default
Only if you're attempting to model actual embryo/fetus/foetus/whatever development. Anyway, if I were to consider it a true default, I would have to put nothing, which would defeat the purpose. See point #1.
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Okay then, good to know. Lesson of the day: You can write pretty much anything in C. :)

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That's the reason to love C.
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faiuwle wrote:That's the reason to love C.
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