what is the point in variables, why wouldn't you just write out whatever number you assigned to it
What is the point in variables, why wouldn't you just write out whatever number you assigned to it
Jackson Carter
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William Barnes
What is the point in calling the president ”president”, why don’t we just use his name?
Noah Gonzalez
saves space in memory
Luis Harris
If you see "24", can you immediately tell me what that means without context?
How about "HOURS_IN_DAY"?
You can also change the value without needing to do a global search and replace in every source file, which can also lead to false matches, when a number is used in two places but means different things ("24" in some places in code means the number of hours in a day, but it could also mean other things in other contexts)
Jeremiah Murphy
It's in the name douchebag, 'variable', the value you assign to it is not fixed.
Jack Parker
Depends on the language implementation, but often the same literal will point to the same place in memory as an optimization. This is why String == String sometimes appears to work in Java for example, when both strings are the same literal.
Connor Baker
stupid question without thinking 0.2 secs about it
Alexander Morris
But HOURS_IN_DAY is not a variable. That is not what we are talking about.
Cooper King
If you mean constants and not variables, then the only real point is easily changing the value of a constant that is used in multiple lines. If you mean actual variables, variables have dynamic uses. For example, if you have two functions that take in a single variable and do wildly different operations to the variable, then both return the variable afterwards, you cannot do this with just static numbers. Pretty hard answering such a retarded question desu
Jack Reyes
HOW COME THE MOST RETARDED QUESTIONS ARE ALWAYS LINKED WITH Jow Forums IMAGES
Levi Cook
It is though. I know in most procedural languages you would refer to this more specifically as a "constant", but that is a kind of variable.
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Kayden Cox
Jesus christ, did you finish high school math?
Jayden Lee
Because variables just hold the number/string/input you put in them so you just write it instead of typing each time
a = 1
b = "string"
c = input()
variables are nothing more than what they contain inside
Easton Gray
For brainlets' convenience.
Juan Phillips
what kind of shirt is he wearing
Robert Walker
>const char* x = "test";
Gorgeous, now what, numbnuts?
Gabriel King
But I have no president...
Jackson Hernandez
You mean use the exact address of every ram location instead of giving them names?
Nathaniel Myers
>variables
You mean constants?
>just write out whatever number you assigned to it
OK, Pajeet, you do that and we focus on readable code.
Joseph Hughes
gr8 b8 m8
Austin Russell
to compile a program with every possible value of a variable would require running the program to find every possible value. then it enters P = NP / halting problem territory.