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[milo christiansen]

Well, if your string is already properly processed (which it should be), there will be no embedded escapes.

Sure, if you are joining a new path from random strings the standard library should be fine, but what if you need to do something more complicated? What if you need to parse the path and do things with it? Then you cannot just assume "\" is the windows directory separator unless you want to run into a world of pain. Hence, any path handler library needs to ignore the system separator and support "/" and "\" on Windows, or it will fail in weird ways.

Since both types of slash work, why not just default to the one that works on Linux and OSX (and many other OSes) as well? It will still be a pain to parse paths, but constructing them will be the same everywhere.

[Mesa]

Allow me to enter full fangirl mode for a post because Godot just had its biggest release to date (3.0, after months of alphas, betas and RCs), and to me, that's hella exciting as someone who's been following the engine's development really closely for the past half a year. (And even contributed to the docs and other non-code things a bit!)
And all the work is summarized in this giant blog post.

Now I actually have an excuse to dust off my prototypes and concepts and start working on them For Real...
Their website also had a total makeover.

[Putnam]

Yeah, I've been working with their C# stuff since beta1. It's pretty nice.

[McTraveller]

Autocoding entertainment for the day (anonymized, of course):

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if( (FALSE || useful_condition) && !FALSE)
{
:


Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Matlab embedded coder.  Bug was in the TLC.  Meta when you don't debug the code - you debug the code that makes the code!

[EnigmaticHat]

All I see there is a perfectly functioning if statement.

Totally unrelated, but I've heard that if you want to give your close brackets a little pizazz, you can write them as

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if (thing == true)
{
    do_code();
}
else if (false)
{
    heat_up_CPU_to_fry_computer();
}
Perfectly functional, of course.  Everything is normal here.

[MorleyDev]

C++ has structured bindings now. *salivates* Soon, soon all languages will converge into a glorious functionalesque whole.

[bloop_bleep]

C++ has structured bindings now. *salivates* Soon, soon all languages will converge into a glorious functionalesque whole.

Holy shit, did I miss the standard release?

... Yep, I did. And to think, I only just became used to C++11. 

[Eschar]

This comment is very late, but Python 3.6 added a cryptography module. In keeping with Python's irreverent naming style, it's called "secrets".

[LoSboccacc]

any lua coder around here? I'm confused by collectgarbage("count") - all documentation says it returns the used memory in kb, but here, it's returning two number and I don't know what is what

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code:
if verbose then print("BOT",BotApi.Instance.playerId," memory sweep " , collectgarbage("count")) end

output:
[LUA] BOT 4  memory sweep  64.58984375 604


[Mephisto]

any lua coder around here? I'm confused by collectgarbage("count") - all documentation says it returns the used memory in kb, but here, it's returning two number and I don't know what is what

It shouldn't be returning two numbers. I'd be tempted to say there are some side effects somewhere.

Have you tried running collectgarbage in other contexts (like a REPL)?

[LoSboccacc]

no, I've no idea what I'm doing either, I just wrote the code, it's an old interpreter deep within an old game and something it's leaking memory (but I'm pretty sure it's the game, not my code)

[Reelya]

Explanation: 604 divided by 1024 = 0.58984375

So, the first number is memory usage in Kbytes, and the second number is the remainder in bytes

Why it's returning that and not just the first number is a separate question. Perhaps it's specific to the old build of LUA that's embedded in that game? Maybe whoever built the game was trying to debug the memory leaks, and modified the collectgarbage routine to also return the remainder in bytes so that they had faster feedback.

[lethosor]

collectgarbage("count") in Lua 5.2 returns two values like you described. It returns one value in Lua 5.3 and Lua 5.1.

[LoSboccacc]

Thanks all! So turns out the leak is within the game engine, I’ve also a fairly good idea now where, maybe I’ll be able to work around it

[lethosor]

I'd be surprised if it's in the game engine, unless it's allocating Lua objects itself, because collectgarbage("count") only returns the memory used by Lua objects (it has no way of detecting memory leaks from anything else).