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1 Example of authored "range check"-superfluous code
Authored by: jonathon on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 12:08 PM EDT
Shouldn't that line read:

return (low < high and value >= low and value <= high);

With "value < high", then if value = high it would evaluate to
false, when it
should be true.

Regardless, the virtue of the nine line algorithm is to include the possibility

of allowing users to correct the data on the fly.

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No offense taken - great example
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 06 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT

You've shown that the pseudo logic can be applied the same logically with the differences being embodied in the particular language.

And therein lies part of my point to the author that suggested:

    If it was copied, creativity must have been involved
As though somehow the only reason for something to be (or even just appear when in reality it wasn't) copied is because it was creative.

Part of the point I was making was: given a particular small specification (which range check is), there is - in any given language - a small subset of ways to actually code the logic unless one wants to start authoring bloat.

Given a range check function is a basic building block of data validation combined with the thousands of developers in the world. Even if every developer authors their own version in a vacuum, there's going to be a large amount of overlap and - in some cases - what appears to be exactly identical code.

RAS

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