However you'd expect somebody with a couple of hundred postings to his name to know better than to post something as nonsensical as his OP, which amounted to a single character.
Can someone translate to me the meaning of the above sentence (in particular the part after comma "..which amounted to a single character"). I was unable to understand what does it means if I litterally translate (MarkMLI tlaks to "someone with a couple hundreds of posts.." that seems directed to me in this topic (Handoko has Thousand of posts).
thank you in advance.
PS: I supposed the OP was just confused on the logic of boolean expression (and OP said thanks in his answer, so that seem it was the case ).
I for one always appreciate it when somebody who raises an issue subsequently confirms that things have been sorted or explained to his satisfaction.
The point I was making was that the original message comprised an isolated fragment of code followed by a question mark, with no indication of whether the problem was that it didn't compile, compiled but crashed at runtime, didn't crash but produced incorrect results, or quite simply that OP didn't understand how it worked or why it behaved in the way he was seeing.
While somebody with little experience of this forum, of the Internet, or- arguably- of life itself might think that was a useful way to ask for help, I'd expect better of somebody who doesn't fit into one of those categories.
But as I later said, in a paragraph you appear to have overlooked (of it not overlooked, chosen not to quote):
Don't knock him: he clarified things when prodded, and said thanks when he realised the problem... which is more than a lot of people do.
MarkMLl