Great. Now that my code is self-documenting it is somehow also not legible?
Make up your damn minds, peeps!
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public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public bool EnableHighContrast;
public bool PlayerWon;
public float PlayerUnitsMoved;
public int PlayerDeathCount;
public float PlayerHealth;
public void PlayerTakeDamage(float damage)
{
PlayerHealth -= damage;
if (PlayerHealth < 0)
{
PlayerDieAndRespawn();
}
}
public void PlayerDieAndRespawn()
{
return;
}
}
I couldn't contain myself.
Should it be
PlayerHealth <= 0
?
Otherwise the player could have 0 health and not die? I’m sleep deprived so forgive me if I’m wrong
You are correct about it allowing you to have zero health and not die, but whether or not that's the correct behavior will depend on the game. Off the top of my head I know that Street Fighter, some versions at least, let you cling to life at zero.
You are correct.
Counting this meme as my first FOSS contribution
gestures at ~~butterfly~~ this code
Is this self-documenting code?
I genuinely believe something like this is what some of my professors wanted me to submit back in school. I once got a couple points off a project for not having a clarifying comment on every single line of code. I got points off once for not comment-clarifying a fucking iterator variable. I wish I could see what they would have said if I turned in something like this. I have a weird feeling that this file would have received full marks.
Did you have my professor for intro to C? This guy was well known for failing people for plagiarism on projects where the task was basically "hello world". And he disallowed using if/else for the first month of class.
Reminds me of an early Uni project where we had to operate on data in an array of 5 elements, but because "I didn't teach it to everyone yet" we couldn't use loops. It was going to be a tedious amount of copy-paste.
I think I got around it by making a function called "not_loop" that applied a functor argument to each element of the array in serial. Professor forgot to ban that.
but because "I didn't teach it to everyone yet" we couldn't use loops.
That is aggravating. "I didn't teach the class the proper way to do this task, so you have to use the tedious way." What is the logic behind that other than wasting everyone's time?
Teaching someone the wrong way to do something frequently makes the right way make way more sense. Someone who just copy/pasted 99 near identical if statements understands on a fundamental level when, why, and where you use a for loop much more than someone who just read in the textbook "a for loop is used to iterate elements in a collection".
Reminds me of a dude that wrote the equivalent of this in Visualg (a brazilian pseudocode language and program, meant solely for teaching programming)
if
if
if
if
if (x < 10) then
print(x)
else
else
else
else
else
That the thing ran and didn't complain about the amount of loose/needless if's checking fuck all baffles my mind to this day.