Dear all,

I am debugging a very complicated C# program, based on .NET 2.0. The
author was a real C# expert, which I am still not.

I saw something strange and try to find out, if this is a bug or maybe a
C# feature. It is part of a property:


set
{
fData[iOffset + iIndex * + iStepSize] = value;
}


The part "* +" seems to be a bug for me, or does this exist?


Thank you for your answers,
Thomas

"Thomas Lehmann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gt4s32$occ$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am debugging a very complicated C# program, based on .NET 2.0. The
> author was a real C# expert, which I am still not.
>
> I saw something strange and try to find out, if this is a bug or maybe a
> C# feature. It is part of a property:
>
>
> set
> {
> fData[iOffset + iIndex * + iStepSize] = value;
> }
>
>
> The part "* +" seems to be a bug for me, or does this exist?


I believe that what the author probably meant was
iOffset+iIndex*iStepSize. However, there is a "unary +" operator, so
iIndex*+iStepSize would compile and yieled the same result as
iIndex*iStepSize (or in other words, the same value but with different sign
as iIndex*-iStepSize).

"Thomas Lehmann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gt4s32$occ$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Dear all,
>
> I am debugging a very complicated C# program, based on .NET 2.0. The
> author was a real C# expert, which I am still not.
>
> I saw something strange and try to find out, if this is a bug or maybe a
> C# feature. It is part of a property:
>
>
> set
> {
> fData[iOffset + iIndex * + iStepSize] = value;
> }
>
>
> The part "* +" seems to be a bug for me, or does this exist?

It is not advanced, complex code. It is merely an example of bad syntax to
get to a particular item in some sort of array or dictionary.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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On Apr 27, 2:04*pm, Thomas Lehmann <tlehm...@iup.uni-heidelberg.de>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am debugging a very complicated C# program, based on .NET 2.0. The
> author was a real C# expert, which I am still not.
>
> I saw something strange and try to find out, if this is a bug or maybe a
> C# feature. It is part of a property:
>
> set
> * * * * {
> * * * * fData[iOffset + iIndex * + iStepSize] = value;
> * * * * }
>
> The part "* +" seems to be a bug for me, or does this exist?
>
> Thank you for your answers,
> Thomas

Hi,

Weird yes, illegal no, the "+" is doing nothing there. Why this
"expert" did it like that is anybody guess.
Maybe it's a bug anyways

Dear all,

thank you for your answers!

Best regards
Thomas