h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was honoured to be allowed to help present that award... thanks DD...
Joanna's just had to go, she she wanted me to ask Eomando if its okay for her to serve?

Leazes
~fishy waves~

Sure, I'll serve...

And yes...'ain't these donuts great... You can eat as many as you want...

Don't anyone...?

*Ride of the Valkyries echos in from outside.*


bbbbbbboooooooommmmmmmmm


bbbbbbboooooooommmmmmmmm

*Music fades and GL walks in.*

Hello, donut GL...?

Yes, please.

A toffee/honey EBA, please. How are you?

*hands over EBA...*

I'm perfectly fine... I only have 3 more pages of my music composition to finish off...

You?

I'm fine too - except for the work problem that I am procrastinating here over. I have a bug in a program that I wrote and have been looking for it for 3 days! Still haven't found it. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH.

*Eats EBA and feels better*

*Sympathy*

*Hands over another EBA on the off-chance that it'll help*

Thanks. It really is a bizarre problem.

*Eats second EBA and feels even better.*

*sympathy*
How 'bout trapping someone and making them listen while you explain what each bit's meant to do?

Good idea. Right now (or at least before I came here), I was stripping out chunks of code and seeing if the error still occurs. The program is now quite small (and getting smaller), but still has the error. I have isolated it to a small bit of code, but that code, I think, is perfect - it works in other programs. Anyway, it's frustrating and a good dose of H2G2 and doughnuts is good for the soul.

Have another EBA

Could there be a problem with the compiler/interpreter, or something? Have you tried rewriting the bit of code? Trying to write a substitute piece of code, to do the same thing, without looking at the original?

*hands over another EBA*

I'm pretty sure it is something weird elsewhere in the program, even though when I comment out the one section, the program runs. That's why I have been deleting other parts of the program and leaving in that one section. The problem is bizarre: a small section of code initializes a 1-dimensional array in a loop. If I comment out that section, the program will run. If I explicitlly initialize each element of the array, it runs. If I use the loop to just initialize the first element of the array, it runs. But if I make the loop cover the first 2 elements, it bombs. So the problem is something else, somewhere else in the program. Anyway, I shouldn't bore everyone with details.

*eats the two EBA's and thinks it is probably time to get back to work.*

Thanks. Catch you later.

'bye, GL
Donut anyone???

Yup, an EBA please!
*Puts 'What a wonderful world' by Louis Armstrong on the JB*

*hands over EBA*
*sings along*
Eat and enjoy, mrgrunt...

I'll have a chocolate DNA...please...

*Sticks her fingers in her ears so she can't hear "What a Wonderful World" whilst muttering "bad memories, bad memories, bad memories..."*

*hands over chocolate DNA and stops singing rather abruptly*

*doesn't like to ask after E's bad memories*

Thanks Joanna...

*puts Stravinsky's Rite of Spring on the Jukebox...*