Re: else ladders practice

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:42:49 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote or quoted:

if (n==0) { printf ("n: %u\n",n); n++;}
if (n==1) { printf ("n: %u\n",n); n++;}
if (n==2) { printf ("n: %u\n",n); n++;}
if (n==3) { printf ("n: %u\n",n); n++;}
if (n==4) { printf ("n: %u\n",n); n++;}
printf ("all if completed, n=%u\n",n);

 
  My bad if the following instruction structure's already been hashed
  out in this thread, but I haven't been following the whole convo!
 
  In my C 101 classes, after we've covered "if" and "else",
  I always throw this program up on the screen and hit the newbies
  with this curveball: "What's this bad boy going to spit out?".
 
  Well, it's a blue moon when someone nails it. Most of them fall
  for my little gotcha hook, line, and sinker.
 
#include <stdio.h>
 
const char * english( int const n )
{ const char * result;
  if( n == 0 )result = "zero";
  if( n == 1 )result = "one";
  if( n == 2 )result = "two";
  if( n == 3 )result = "three";
  else        result = "four";
  return result; }
 
void print_english( int const n )
{ printf( "%s\n", english( n )); }
 
int main( void )
{ print_english( 0 );
  print_english( 1 );
  print_english( 2 );
  print_english( 3 );
  print_english( 4 ); }

If I read your code correctly, you have actually included not one,
but TWO curveballs.  Well done!

--
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"