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Goes To

Just a brief tutorial to tell people about the “goes to” operator: -->. The arrow design is to show it goes towards the number, thus it decrements a variable until it reaches zero, and can be used in loops to loop a number of times. Mainly the while loop:

Code:

new i = 10;
while (i --> 0)
{
    printf("%d", i);
}

Will print:

9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0


Note that 10 is not included, while 0 is. This makes it like normal loops, but backwards.

You can loop over players backwards with:

Code:

for (new i = MAX_PLAYERS; i --> 0; )
{
}

Technically you can go down to any value:

Code:

new j = 10;
while (j --> 5) {}

And yes, if you haven’t figured it out yet, this isn’t actually a new operator. It is two operators (-- and >) with odd spacing. That last example would be more normally written as:

Code:

new j = 10;
while (j-- > 5) {}

I first saw this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-operator-in-c so though I’d write it here. It is stupid, don't use it...