Sometimes when I'm really stuck, I say, alright let me stop looking for the bug.

有些时候我被卡住了，我会说好吧。

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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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If it's there, I'm done, if not, I keep walking down, and I only stop when I get to a place where the element I'm looking for is smaller than the value in the list., in which case I know the rest of this is too big and I can stop.

并且保持遍历,我只在当当前位置的数组元素,大于目标数时停止,这意味着剩下的元素都比目标元素大，但是其他的情况,我还是要遍历完整个数组。

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