>>18IF U WANT. DER ARE HEAPS OF WAYS U CAN SCORE THEM.
I GAVE CONFORMIST-BOI A POINT IF HE POINTED OUT VALID FLAWS IN HIS CODE OR SUGGESTED GOOD IMPROVEMENTS (ERROR HANDLING AND DA CONST-QUALIFIER WERE FAIR IMPROVEMENTS, BUT DEY AIN'T VERY SIGNIFICANT, SO EACH GOT HALF A POINT.)
ONES DAT AREN'T TECHNICALLY FLAWS/IMPROVEMENTS, BUT WERE WORTH BRINGING UP, LIKE DA "\r\n" THING, WERE AWARDED ZERO POINTS.
ONES DAT WEREN'T WORTH BRINGING UP, LIKE int VS size_t, AND ONLY WORKED 2 CONFUSE DA GUY WHOSE CODE HE WAS CRITICISING, MADE HIM LOSE A POINT.
A GOOD POST WILL HAVE ONLY 1s AND 0s. NO -1s.
NOW HOW CUD HE HAV IMPROVED HIS POST? HE CUD HAV ELIMINATED ALL DA CONFUSING POINTS DAT YIELDED -1S FROM ME. HE CUD HAVE ALSO SUGGESTED DAT HE COMPUTES DA SIZE OF DA ARRAY USING DA sizeof OPERATOR, SO DAT ELEMENTS CUD BE ADDED TO DA ARRAY WITHOUT HAVING 2 CHANGE DA VALUE STORED IN linecount. DAT WUD BE WORTH A 1 SINCE IT MAKES DA CODE EASIER TO MANAGE.
IF SUM1 SUGGESTED USING 'static' TO GIVE lines AND linecount INTERNAL LINKAGE, I'D GIVE IT A 0. DAT'S REALLY ON DA SAME LEVEL AS DA CONST-QUALIFIER.
NOW JOI BOI GOT A POINT EVERY TIME HE HAD A VALID COUNTER-ARGUMENT AND LOST ONE EVERY TIME HIS COUNTER-ARGUMENT WAS BULLSHIT (OR HE MADE A MISTAKE).