logic error

The cause of any unexpected and undesired outcome. Usually attributable to a fundamental lack of understanding of the underlying situation. Most logic errors are minor logic errors.

If I jam a fork into this electrical outlet, money will come out.

by aero March 14, 2003

minor logic error

When the CS202 student conveniently forgets parenthesis at the top of their function

int main /* what is missing here ? */
{
...
}

by /dev/null March 14, 2003

minor logic error

A logic error that appears to be catastrophic, but is very easy to correct.

#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
int num;
cout<<"Do NOT enter the number 1:";
cin>>num;
if(num=1)
cout<<"You idiot! I said NOT to enter the number 1!\n";
else
cout<<"Good job!\n";
}

by aero March 14, 2003