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Ick, I was really happy this morning, and I've got steadily more depressed, and now I'm all stressy, 'cos I wanna finish LJ-ing this stuff, but I *so* don't have time. And I can't either get on with it or stop thinking about it, and I'm bound to suddenly have *way* too much stuff to do once I go back to school - in fact, I already have half of it. Blergh.
Stuff I need before I can 'finish' this stage of my latest coding project: ascii value tables, a check on function-pointer notation, whether I can get away with my horrible abuse of character pointers to scan through a string. (use char *argc from main, then assign what it points to to a char variable, then check what that is and do stuff, then assign char *argc + iterator * sizeof(char*) to the char variable, rinse and repeat, is what I *want* to do, I think. whether I have the right notation, *shrug*). Need to compile that sometime and see all the errors that come from coding huge chunks of code without trying to compile once 'cos the Psion's C interpretor is rubbish and won't handly command-line parameters properly. Now that's something that could be waiting a while. Also, need to learn Python because the preliminary string formatting is going to be, uh, interesting, even in a language which is sensible about strings. (Anyone with some better options on what to use to translate a 'properly' written formula into a string of goop that my C program can eat without choking too badly? More detailed specifications of goop and input available on request.)
Stuff I need before I can 'finish' this stage of my latest coding project: ascii value tables, a check on function-pointer notation, whether I can get away with my horrible abuse of character pointers to scan through a string. (use char *argc from main, then assign what it points to to a char variable, then check what that is and do stuff, then assign char *argc + iterator * sizeof(char*) to the char variable, rinse and repeat, is what I *want* to do, I think. whether I have the right notation, *shrug*). Need to compile that sometime and see all the errors that come from coding huge chunks of code without trying to compile once 'cos the Psion's C interpretor is rubbish and won't handly command-line parameters properly. Now that's something that could be waiting a while. Also, need to learn Python because the preliminary string formatting is going to be, uh, interesting, even in a language which is sensible about strings. (Anyone with some better options on what to use to translate a 'properly' written formula into a string of goop that my C program can eat without choking too badly? More detailed specifications of goop and input available on request.)
