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[21-Jun-2016] [Metall/u/rgy] Variable Lifetime
Title: Variable Lifetime
Prompt: 21-Jun-2016 "you have fixed my life— however short"
Based on: Metall/u/rgy
Characters: Francium, Rubidium
Type: Angst?/humor; 100 words
Warnings: Data-processing humor (as if fan-fiction of anthropomorphic chemical elements weren't nerdy enough).
Francium was debugging some data. She wasn't a full-time programmer, but she often debugged spreadsheet-macros and data-scripts.
Ah, there's the problem, she thought. This variable was incorrectly reinitialized... There. Now it's returned to its parent function...
...where it gets DEALLOCATED? Oh NO! How very CRUEL!...
—
Rubidium knocked at Francium's door, and was concerned to see her in tears at her terminal. "What's wrong, sweetie?" she asked.
"The poor little
"If you're this upset over a named variable," Rubidium said gently, "please don't ever play a video game."
Prompt: 21-Jun-2016 "you have fixed my life— however short"
Based on: Metall/u/rgy
Characters: Francium, Rubidium
Type: Angst?/humor; 100 words
Warnings: Data-processing humor (as if fan-fiction of anthropomorphic chemical elements weren't nerdy enough).
Francium was debugging some data. She wasn't a full-time programmer, but she often debugged spreadsheet-macros and data-scripts.
Ah, there's the problem, she thought. This variable was incorrectly reinitialized... There. Now it's returned to its parent function...
...where it gets DEALLOCATED? Oh NO! How very CRUEL!...
—
Rubidium knocked at Francium's door, and was concerned to see her in tears at her terminal. "What's wrong, sweetie?" she asked.
"The poor little
standardized_coefficient," Francium sniffled. "I did everything I could to extend its lifetime, but...""If you're this upset over a named variable," Rubidium said gently, "please don't ever play a video game."