How I See Numbers

Re:How I See Numbers by teaearlgraycold on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:47PM (#30545827)

One thing that helps at lot with programming is my tendency to visualize branches and dependencies as graphs/trees as I read/write code. This makes aberrations and code smells extremely obvious. A dirty hack makes you go from something that looks like a beautiful fine-toothed comb to a comb with a cancerous tumor on it.

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Re:How I See Numbers by sjosund on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:54PM (#30545941)

Sounds like something that would make an interesting blog post!

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Re:How I See Numbers by teaearlgraycold on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:46PM (#30546733)

That's a good idea.

Sometimes the domain is already graphical - and I take every opportunity to make the code match the visual layout, ex:

https://github.com/danthedaniel/gameoflife-rs/blob/master/sr...

    /// Count living cells adjacent to a cell in the matrix.
    #[inline]
    #[rustfmt::skip]
    fn alive_neighbors(&self, x: i32, y: i32) -> u8 {
        [
            self[(x - 1, y - 1)], self[(x + 0, y - 1)], self[(x + 1, y - 1)],
            self[(x - 1, y + 0)], /*  selected cell  */ self[(x + 1, y + 0)],
            self[(x - 1, y + 1)], self[(x + 0, y + 1)], self[(x + 1, y + 1)],
        ]
        .iter()
        .fold(0, |total, &neighbor| total + (neighbor != 0) as u8)
    }

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