I can't rely on Professor Guttag if I give this- if this code to him, I can't rely on him to type in a float. Actually I can, because he's a smart guy, but in general, I can't rely on the user-- I wouldn't do it right to see if you did.

当Guttag使用这段代码的时候-,我不能相信他一定会输入一个浮点数,实际上我能因为他很聪明，但是总体上来讲，别相信用户一定会按照规则来-,我会故意做错来试试你的程序的。

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All right. If you flip to the second side of your handout, you'll see that I have a piece of code there, that does this-- let me, ah, I didn't want to do that, let me back up slightly- this is the algorithm called search.

你可以看到实现这个功能的代码,让我，额，我不想这么做,让我们回来一点,这就是命名为search的算法-,我们来看看这个算法吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So in other words, if you terminate these lines early, if you terminate the four loop early, if you terminate an if condition early with that semicolon, the code may very well work; and this is a common source -- of frustration and conundrum because you don't -- because your code looks right and yet it's misbehaving, but that semicolon means stop looking for subsequent lines of related code.

换句话说，如果你用分号过早的终止了这些代码行，如果你过早地终止了那个for循环，如果如此,一个if条件，代码可能可以运行，这就是,挫折和问题产生的源头，因为你没有-,因为你的代码看起来是正确的，但是运行是错误的，那个分号的意思是,停止寻找后面相关的代码。

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